• DocumentCode
    499331
  • Title

    Femtosecond pulses with 1.1 GHz repetition rate generated from a CW laser without mode-locking

  • Author

    Dai, Yitang ; Xu, Chris

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    471-fs pulses are generated by injecting a 33-ps pulse train, obtained from pulse carving a 1.55-mum CW DFB laser, into a time-lens loop. High repetition rate of 1.1 GHz is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    distributed feedback lasers; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; CW DFB laser; CW distributed feedback laser; femtosecond pulse generation; pulse train injection; time 33 ps; time 471 fs; time-lens loop; wavelength 1.55 mum; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse generation; (060.2380) Fiber optics sources; (320.5520) Pulse compression; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5224411