Fiber Bragg grating for optical dark soliton generation

被引:30
作者
Emplit, P [1 ]
Haelterman, M [1 ]
Kashyap, R [1 ]
DeLathouwer, M [1 ]
机构
[1] BT LABS,IPSWICH IP5 7RE,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND
关键词
lasers; optical fiber communications; optical fiber filters; optical pulse shaping; optical solitons; ultrafast optics;
D O I
10.1109/68.605522
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We investigate theoretically and experimentally the generation of dark soliton pulse trains at several gigahertz repetition rate by means of a fiber Bragg grating used as a passive filtering element at the output of a mode-locked laser. We show that a proper choice of the grating parameters allows for the transformation of bright pulse train into odd dark pulse trains with continuous-wave (CW) background.
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页码:1122 / 1124
页数:3
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