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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 172-174 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 1995 |
Keywords
- fiber Bragg gratings
- Kerr mode-locked erbium