Title :
10 GHz, 1 ps regeneratively modelocked fibre laser incorporating highly nonlinear and dispersive photonic crystal fibre for intracavity nonlinear pulse compression
Author :
Abedin, K.S. ; Kubota, F.
Author_Institution :
Commun. Res. Lab., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A tunable polarisation maintaining regeneratively modelocked erbium fibre laser in which a photonic crystal fibre (PCF) was used for intracavity nonlinear pulse compression is demonstrated. The high nonlinearity and large anomalous dispersion of the PCF made pulse compression achievable in a length of only 10 m. Pulses with 1 ps width and 10 GHz repetition rate were obtained over a range of 1535-1560 nm.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; optical solitons; photonic crystals; timing jitter; 1535 to 1560 nm; chirp-compensated pulse; dispersive photonic crystal fibre; erbium doped fibre laser; fibre ring laser; fundamental soliton energy; intracavity nonlinear pulse compression; large anomalous dispersion; polarisation maintaining fibre; regeneratively modelocked fibre laser; soliton pulse shaping; timing jitter; tunable fibre laser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20040051
