Title :
Compression of 40-, 20-, and 10 GHz optical pulses from mode-locked Er3+-doped fiber lasers by external chirp compensation
Author :
Seikai, Shigeyuki ; Yamashita, Ikuo ; Shimoura, Kazuhiro ; Yoshida, Minoru
Author_Institution :
Kansai Electr. Power Co. Inc., Hyogo, Japan
Abstract :
Optical pulses with 3-ps, 3.4-ps, and 3.8-ps widths at frequencies of 40, 20, and 10 GHz, respectively, are obtained by externally attaching a conventional single-mode fiber to the mode-locked fiber laser to compensate for the dispersion.
Keywords :
erbium; laser beams; laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; self-phase modulation; 10 GHz; 20 GHz; 3 ps; 3.4 ps; 3.8 ps; 40 GHz; Er/sup 3+/-doped fiber lasers; dispersion; external chirp compensation; mode-locked fiber laser; mode-locked fiber lasers; optical pulses; pulse compression; single-mode fiber laser; Erbium; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser modes; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation;
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.1999.820570
