PICOSECOND STIMULATED RAMAN GENERATION, PUMP PULSE FRAGMENTATION, AND FRAGMENT COMPRESSION IN SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBERS

被引:16
作者
FRENCH, PMW [1 ]
GOMES, ASL [1 ]
GOUVEIANETO, AS [1 ]
TAYLOR, JR [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV FED ALAGOAS,DEPT FIS,BR-57000 MACEIO,ALAGOAS,BRAZIL
关键词
FIBER OPTICS - LASER PULSES - LASERS; SOLID STATE - Applications - OPTICAL PUMPING;
D O I
10.1109/JQE.1986.1072932
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Pump pulse depletion has been examined for high-peak-power (100 kW) 90 ps pulses from a Q-switched and mode-locked Nd:YAG laser in 4 m of single-mode optical fiber. Fragmentation of the fundamental and low Stokes Raman orders has been observed for this cascading process. Pulse compression using an interferometric technique has been carried out, obtaining compression ratios of up to five times on these fragments which exhibited a negative frequency chirp.
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页数:6
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