SUBPICOSECOND PULSE-COMPRESSION AND RAMAN GENERATION USING A MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER-AMPLIFIER

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SCHLAGER, JB
HALE, PD
FRANZEN, DL
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[1] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
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10.1109/68.58049
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Pulses of 20 ps duration from a 1536 nm erbium-doped fiber laser modelocked at 10 MHz are soliton-compressed in a 1 km fiber to 1.5 ps. The pulses are then amplified in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier and compressed in a second fiber to less than 300 fs. Pulses give rise to stimulated Raman scattering in fibers; the direct output from the erbium fiber laser-amplifier has sufficient peak power to pump fiber Raman lasers. © 1990 IEEE
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