Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947446
