Tunable Raman soliton source using mode-locked Tm-Ho fiber laser

被引：140

作者：

Kivistoe, Sarnuh ^{[1
]}

Hakulinen, Tommi

Guina, Mircea

Okhotnikov, Oleg G.

机构：

[1] Tampere Univ Technol, Optoelect Res Ctr, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland

[2] RefleKron Ltd, Tampere 33710, Finland

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2007年 / 19卷 / 9-12期

关键词：

lasers and laser optics; optical fibers; short pulse formation; solitons;

D O I：

10.1109/LPT.2007.898877

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 [电气工程]; 0809 [电子科学与技术];

摘要：

We report a femtosecond pulse source that uses a mode-locked Tm-Ho oscillator and a self-frequency shift of Raman solitons in Tm-Ho power amplifier. The master oscillator mode-locked by an antimonide-based saturable absorber mirror produces 750-fs transform-limited soliton pulses over the tuning range from 1912 to 1972 nm. The soliton self-frequency shift in the amplifier resulted in transform-limited pulses with the wavelength adjusted by varying the amplifier pump power. We obtain similar to 150-fs soliton pulses at the wavelength of 2150 nm with average power up to 230 mW corresponding to the peak power of 27 kW. The efficiency of Raman conversion ranges from 47% to 62% over the tuning range.

引用

页码：934 / 936

页数：3

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