ALL-OPTICAL PULSE-COMPRESSION USING AMPLIFYING SAGNAC LOOP

被引:7
作者
BETTS, RA
FRISKEN, SJ
TELFORD, CA
ATHERTON, PS
机构
[1] Optoelectronics Section OTC Limited, Sydney, New South Wales, GPO Box 7000
关键词
OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHING;
D O I
10.1049/el:19910537
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 transmission characteristics of a novel amplifying Sagnac loop incorporating an erbium doped fibre amplifier and a semiconductor laser amplifier are reported. The transmission characteristics of such loops at low input powers (< 25-mu-W in this device) have a nonlinear (approximately cubic) form which has been characterised experimentally and used for all-optical pulse shaping and pulse compression. Optical pulses have been compressed down to 150 ps with a typical single pass compression factor of 0.7.
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页码:858 / 860
页数:3
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