Title :
Compact high-repetition rate, widely tunable modelocked fiber laser and Raman soliton wavelength converter based on photonic crystal fibers
Author :
Abedin, Kazi S. ; Kubota, Fumito
Author_Institution :
Commun. Res. Lab., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We report mode-locked lasers that produce 1-ps, 10-GHz pulses using intracavity pulse compression in photonic crystal fiber (PCF). Moreover, the output pulses were wavelength-shifted by 100 nm and transformed to sub-200-fs-solitons using self-frequency shift in PCF.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; optical wavelength conversion; photonic crystals; 1 ps; 10 GHz; 100 nm; 200 fs; PCF; Raman soliton wavelength converter; intracavity pulse compression; photonic crystal fibers; self-frequency shift; tunable modelocked fiber laser;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
