High energy, sub-picosecond pulse compression at 10GHz using a fibre fibre-grating pulse compressor

被引:4
作者
Tamura, K
Komukai, T
Yamamoto, T
Imai, T
Yoshida, E
Nakazawa, M
机构
[1] NTT Access Network Systems Laboratory, Ibaraki-ken 319-11, Tokai-mura
关键词
optical pulse compression; gratings in fibres; optical circulators;
D O I
10.1049/el:19951472
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
The authors report a fibre/fibre-grating pulse compressor suitable for compressing high energy, high repetition rate picosecond pulses to sub-picosecond durations. Linearly chirped fibre gratings and an optical circulator are used for output chirp compensation. This scheme is not limited to wavelength regimes with anomalous dispersion in the fibre. A 10GHz train of 7.1ps pulses at 1548nm was compressed to 720fs, corresponding to a compression factor of similar to 10. At maximum power, the compressed pulses had 18pJ energies and peak powers of 15W.
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页码:2194 / 2195
页数:2
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