In-cavity pulse shaping by spectral sculpturing in mode-locked fibre lasers

Sonia Boscolo, Junsong Peng, Christophe Finot

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Abstract

We review our recent progress on the realisation of pulse shaping in passively-mode-locked fibre lasers by inclusion of an amplitude and/or phase spectral filter into the laser cavity. We numerically show that depending on the amplitude transfer function of the in-cavity filter, various advanced temporal waveforms can be generated, including parabolic, flattop and triangular pulses. An application of this approach using a flattop spectral filter is shown to achieve the direct generation of high-quality sinc-shaped optical Nyquist pulses with a widely tunable bandwidth from the laser oscillator. We also present the operation of an ultrafast fibre laser in which conventional, dispersion-managed and dissipative soliton mode-locking regimes can be selectively and reliably targeted by adaptively changing the dispersion profile and bandwidth programmed on an in-cavity programmable filter.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
EditorsM. Ferrari, D. Dorosz, M. Marciniak
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)978-1-5090-1467-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2016
Event18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Trento, Italy
Duration: 10 Jul 201614 Jul 2016

Publication series

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ISSN (Electronic)2161-2064

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Abbreviated titleICTON 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTrento
Period10/07/1614/07/16

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Keywords

  • mode-locked fibre lasers, nonlinear pulse shaping, frequency filtering, nonlinear fibre optics

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