High repetition rate femtosecond WDM pulse generation using direct space-to-time pulse shapers and arrayed waveguide gratings

DE Leaird, AM Weiner, S Shen, A Sugita… - Optical and quantum …, 2001 - Springer
For the application of high repetition rate wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) pulse train
generation from a femtosecond modelocked fiber laser, the direct space-to-time pulse …

20-kW peak power all-fiber 1.57-µm source based on compression in air-core photonic bandgap fiber, its frequency doubling, and broadband generation from 430 to …

CJS De Matos, RE Kennedy, SV Popov, JR Taylor - Optics letters, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an ultrashort all-fiber-integrated chirped-pulse amplification system yielding
1-ps pulses with 20 kW of peak power. 40-ps initial pulses generated by an externally …

Performance optimization of ultra-short optical pulse generation based on Mamyshev reshaping and its application in 100-Gb/s and 200-Gb/s optical time-division …

D Wang, L Huo, Q Wang, C Lou - Optics Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
A robust, cost-effective external-modulated ultra-short pulse generator based on chirp
compression and Mamyshev reshaper is simulated numerically and demonstrated …

Efficient all-optical wavelength-conversion scheme based on a saw-tooth pulse shaper

F Parmigiani, M Ibsen, P Petropoulos… - IEEE Photonics …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate the use of saw-tooth optical pulses, generated using a
superstructured fiber Bragg grating, to achieve high performance and efficient all-optical …

Alternate and simultaneous generation of 1-GHz dual-wavelength pulses from an electrically tunable harmonically mode-locked fiber laser

KL Lee, C Shu - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new scheme of producing dual-wavelength mode-locked pulses from a fiber laser is
proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In addition to the simultaneous generation of …

40-Gb/s transmission over multiple 120-km spans of conventional single-mode fiber using highly dispersed pulses

SG Park, AH Gnauck, JM Wiesenfeld… - IEEE Photonics …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the transmission of a 40-Gb/s signal over multiple (up to six) 120-km spans
of conventional single-mode fiber (SMF). We use a very low duty cycle return-to-zero (RZ) …

Efficient wavelength conversion using triangular pulses generated using a superstructured fiber Bragg grating

F Parmigiani, M Ibsen, TT Ng, L Provost… - Optical Fiber …, 2008 - opg.optica.org
The generation of picosecond triangular optical pulses is experimentally demonstrated
using SSFBG technology. This shape provides a more than two-fold improvement in the …

Dual-wavelength source of high-repetition-rate, transform-limited optical pulses for soliton transmission

PV Mamyshev - Optics letters, 1994 - opg.optica.org
I show how removal of the central optical frequencies from the output of an externally phase-
modulated, single-frequency laser results in a dual-wavelength source of high-quality pulse …

40 GHz pulse source based on cross-phase modulation-induced focusing in normally dispersive optical fibers

J Nuño, M Gilles, M Guasoni, B Kibler, C Finot… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the design of a high-repetition rate source
delivering well-separated optical pulses due to the nonlinear compression of a dual …

CW-to-pulse conversion using temporal Talbot array illuminators

CR Fernández-Pousa, R Maram, J Azaña - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on the linear conversion of continuous-wave (CW) laser light to optical pulses
using temporal Talbot array illuminators (TAIs) with fractional orders 1/q (q≤ 10) …