Adiabatic soliton compression from 8 ps to 120 fs in a cascaded Raman/erbium fiber amplifier

Author

Liu, X. ; Xu, C. ; Boivin, L. ; Knox, W.H.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

48

Abstract

Summary form only given. Pulse compression is a well-known technique to obtain short pulse duration and broad spectrum. Adiabatic soliton compression (ASC) is highly sensitive to the noise of input pulses but has been shown to be efficient and robust against noise. Here we report the first ASC in a cascaded Raman/erbium fiber amplifier in which 8-ps pulses from a dispersion-compensated DFB laser were simultaneously compressed and amplified by over 60-fold.

Keywords

Raman lasers; compensation; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; 8 ps to 120 fs; EDFA; Er-doped fiber amplifier; adiabatic soliton compression; cascaded Raman/erbium fiber amplifier; dispersion-compensated DFB laser; fiber Raman amplifier; optical pulse compression; ultrashort laser pulses; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser noise; Noise robustness; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Solitons; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947446

Filename

947446