In-cavity pulse shaping by spectral sculpturing in mode-locked fibre lasers

Sonia Boscolo; Junsong Peng; Christophe Finot

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550379

In-cavity pulse shaping by spectral sculpturing in mode-locked fibre lasers

Sonia Boscolo, Junsong Peng, Christophe Finot

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Abstract

We review our recent progress on the realisation of pulse shaping in passively-mode-locked fibre lasers by inclusion of an amplitude and/or phase spectral filter into the laser cavity. We numerically show that depending on the amplitude transfer function of the in-cavity filter, various advanced temporal waveforms can be generated, including parabolic, flattop and triangular pulses. An application of this approach using a flattop spectral filter is shown to achieve the direct generation of high-quality sinc-shaped optical Nyquist pulses with a widely tunable bandwidth from the laser oscillator. We also present the operation of an ultrafast fibre laser in which conventional, dispersion-managed and dissipative soliton mode-locking regimes can be selectively and reliably targeted by adaptively changing the dispersion profile and bandwidth programmed on an in-cavity programmable filter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Editors	M. Ferrari, D. Dorosz, M. Marciniak
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-1467-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550379
Publication status	Published - 25 Aug 2016
Event	18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Trento, Italy Duration: 10 Jul 2016 → 14 Jul 2016

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ISSN (Electronic)	2161-2064

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Conference	18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Abbreviated title	ICTON 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Trento
Period	10/07/16 → 14/07/16

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mode-locked fibre lasers, nonlinear pulse shaping, frequency filtering, nonlinear fibre optics

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Boscolo, S, Peng, J & Finot, C 2016, In-cavity pulse shaping by spectral sculpturing in mode-locked fibre lasers. in M Ferrari, D Dorosz & M Marciniak (eds), 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)., Tu.B1.3, IEEE, 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, Trento, Italy, 10/07/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550379

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In-cavity pulse shaping by spectral sculpturing in mode-locked fibre lasers

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