Broad-band high-repetition-rate source for spectrally sliced WDM

Author

Mikulla, B. ; Leng, L. ; Sears, S. ; Collings, B.C. ; Arend, M. ; Bergman, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

11

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

420

Abstract

A uniform 35-nm-wide spectrum is generated by broadening the output from a 2.5-GHz mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser in dispersion shifted fiber. The obtained spectrum is suitable for spectral slicing and wavelength-division-multiplexed applications. The spectral broadening in dispersion shifted fiber is optimized as a function of the launched pulse chirp parameter.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; spectral line broadening; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 GHz; GHz mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser; broad-band high-repetition-rate source; dispersion shifted fiber; launched pulse chirp parameter; spectral broadening; spectral slicing; spectrally sliced WDM; wavelength-division-multiplexed applications; Chirp; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Scanning probe microscopy; Ultrafast optics; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.752534

Filename

752534