Stretched-pulse generation and propagation
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
1998
Name of Publication
Ieice Transactions on Electronics
Volume
E81C
Pagination
180 - 188
Issue
2
Date Published
1998/02//
ISBN Number
0916-8524
Keywords
amplifier, communication, dispersion, dispersion-allocated solitons, enhanced power solitons, femtosecond fiber laser, jitter, long distance transmission systems, optical-fiber, ring lasers, systems, transmission, ultrashort pulse fiber lasers
Abstract
In this paper we review the stretched-pulse principle and discuss its inherent advantages for ultrashort pulse generation and transmission. An analytic theory of the stretched-pulse fiber laser is presented and shown to ben good agreement with experimental results. An extension of the stretched-pulse theory is applied to both fiber lasers and dispersion-allocated soliton transmission and then compared to numerical results. We also discuss the design and operation of an environmentally stable stretched-pulse fiber laser.