• DocumentCode
    1480820
  • Title

    All-optical pulse compression using amplifying Sagnac loop

  • Author

    Betts, R.A. ; Frisken, S.J. ; Telford, C.A. ; Atherton, P.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Section, OTC Ltd., Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    5/9/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    858
  • Lastpage
    860
  • Abstract
    The transmission characteristics of a novel amplifying Sagnac loop incorporating an erbium doped fibre amplifier and a semiconductor laser amplifier are reported. The transmission characteristics of such loops at low input powers (<25 mu W in this device) have a nonlinear (approximately cubic) form which has been characterised experimentally and used for all-optical pulse shaping and pulse compression. Optical pulses have been compressed down to 150 ps with a typical single pass compression factor of 0.7.
  • Keywords
    data compression; fibre lasers; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; semiconductor junction lasers; 150 ps; Er 3+-doped fibre amplifier; all-optical pulse shaping; amplifying Sagnac loop; input powers; pulse compression; semiconductor laser amplifier; single pass compression factor; transmission characteristics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19910537
  • Filename
    74970
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1480820