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 |
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Pages (from-to) | 3461 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Japanese journal of applied physics |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 8 R |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1993 Aug |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Erbium-doped fiber
- Femtosecond pulse
- Fiber laser
- Nonlinear amplifying loop mirror
- Optical soliton
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)