High-power soliton fibre laser based on pulse width control with chirped fibre Bragg gratings

M E Fermann, K Sugden, I Bennion

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Abstract

Chirped fiber Bragg gratings control the pulse width and energy in Kerr mode-locked erbium fiber soliton lasers. We create high-energy pulses by providing large amounts of excessive negative dispersion, which increases the pulse width while keeping the nonlinearity of the cavity constant. With a chirped fiber grating of 3.4-ps2 dispersion, 3-ps pulses with an energy content higher than 1 nJ are generated at a repetition rate of 27 MHz. By controlling the polarization state in the cavity, we obtain a tuning range from 1.550 to 1.562 μm.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)172-174
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume20
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1995

Keywords

  • fiber Bragg gratings
  • Kerr mode-locked erbium

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