Title :
74 nm, 2.5 GHz supercontinuum generation in a dispersion-shifted fiber
Author :
Jian, Wu ; Caiyun, Lou ; Yuhua, Li ; Yizhi, Gao
Author_Institution :
Opt. Commun. Center, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China
Abstract :
A 74 nm, 2.5 GHz stable supercontinuum pulse source has been demonstrated with a gain-switched DFB laser as pump source. The stable, narrow pulses with mean pulsewidth of 4.8 ps are filtered out across the whole SC bandwidth. The experimental results verify some theoretical simulations.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; phase modulation; self-phase modulation; 2.5 GHz; 4.8 ps; 74 nm; cross-phase modulation; dispersion-shifted fiber; four-wave mixing; gain-switched DFB laser; mean pulsewidth; pump source; self-phase modulation; stable narrow pulses; stable supercontinuum pulse source; supercontinuum generation; theoretical simulations; Bandwidth; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Supercontinuum generation;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
7-5635-0402-8
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.1999.820528
