Title :
Coherent ultrashort pulse generation from incoherent light by trapped pulse amplification in birefringent fibers
Author :
Shiraki, Eiji ; Nishizawa, Norihiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
48 pJ, 413 fs, chirp-free, sech2-shaped, coherent, ultrashort pulse was generated from an incoherent light of super luminescent diode using pulse trapping and amplification by an ultrashort soliton pulse in a 400 m-long birefringent fiber.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; superluminescent diodes; birefringent fibers; coherent ultrashort pulse generation; distance 400 m; incoherent light; pulse trapping; super luminescent diode; time 413 fs; trapped pulse amplification; ultrashort soliton pulse; Charge carrier processes; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4