Picosecond pulse-duration-selectable soliton source based upon adiabatic compression in a Raman amplifier

Author

Lewis, S.A.E. ; Reeves-Hall, P.C. ; Chernikov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll., London, UK

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

7-10 March 2000

Firstpage

257

Abstract

Raman amplification of 10 ps soliton pulses generated directly from an electroabsorption modulator based source have been adiabatically compressed in a Raman fibre amplifier, giving a pulse duration tunable source, 1-10 ps at 10 GHz and average powers up to 650 mW dependent on the magnitude of the amplification.

Keywords

Electro-optical modulation; Electroabsorption; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Raman lasers; 1 to 10 ps; 10 ps; 650 mW; Raman amplification; Raman fibre amplifier; adiabatic compression; adiabatically compressed; amplification magnitude; average powers; electroabsorption modulator; fibre Raman amplifier; picosecond pulse-duration-selectable soliton source; ps soliton pulses; pulse duration tunable source; Chirp modulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-630-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2000.868433

Filename

868433