All-fibered high-quality low duty-cycle 160-GHz femtosecond pulse source

Coraline Fortier (1) , Bertrand Kibler (1) , Julien Fatome (2) , Christophe Finot (1) , Stéphane Pitois (1) , Guy Millot (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
2 SLCO

In this paper, we report the experimental demonstration of an all-optical fiber-based 160-GHz femtosecond pulse source exhibiting a duty cycle as low as 1/17. The 380-fs wellseparated Gaussian pulses are generated thanks to the strong temporal compression of an initial beat-signal propagating into three distinct segments of optical fiber. Experimental results are supported by numerical simulations based on the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation. (© 2008 by Astro Ltd., Published exclusively by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

Mots clés: Nonlinear optics in fibers; Femtosecond; Low duty cycle; Pulse compression

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Coraline Fortier, Bertrand Kibler, Julien Fatome, Christophe Finot, Stéphane Pitois, et al.. All-fibered high-quality low duty-cycle 160-GHz femtosecond pulse source. Laser Physics Letters, 2008, 5 (11), pp.817-820. ⟨10.1002/lapl.200810074⟩. ⟨hal-00406244⟩