Femtosecond erbium-doped fiber lasers and a soliton compression technique

Eiji Yoshida; Yasuo Kimtjra; Masataka Nakazawa

doi:10.1143/JJAP.32.3461

Femtosecond erbium-doped fiber lasers and a soliton compression technique

Eiji Yoshida, Yasuo Kimtjra, Masataka Nakazawa

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Abstract

The lasing characteristics of an erbium-doped fiber laser with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM) were investigated in detail. The NALM was pumped by 1.48/im InGaAsP laser diodes and an output pulse as short as 124 fs was obtained at 1.56//m. The 124-fs pulse was shortened to 50 fs by using adiabatic soliton narrowing and high order soliton compression. Soliton narrowing was achieved by amplifying the soliton pulse adiabatically with an erbium-doped fiber amplifier, and a short length of dispersion-flattened fiber was used for soliton compression. Soliton narrowing enabled us to succeed in generating a 98-fs pulse directly from a modified erbium-doped fiber laser.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3461
Number of pages	1
Journal	Japanese journal of applied physics
Volume	32
Issue number	8 R
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.32.3461
Publication status	Published - 1993 Aug
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Erbium-doped fiber
Femtosecond pulse
Fiber laser
Nonlinear amplifying loop mirror
Optical soliton

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