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

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.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550379
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
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Event Title: 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Event Type: Other
Event Dates: 2016-07-10 - 2016-07-14
Uncontrolled Keywords: mode-locked fibre lasers, nonlinear pulse shaping, frequency filtering, nonlinear fibre optics,Computer Networks and Communications,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
ISBN: 978-1-5090-1467-5
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2024 08:44
Date Deposited: 15 Sep 2016 13:25
Full Text Link: http://ieeexplo ... rnumber=7550379
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PURE Output Type: Conference contribution
Published Date: 2016-08-25
Accepted Date: 2016-05-11
Authors: Boscolo, Sonia (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-5388-2893)
Peng, Junsong
Finot, Christophe

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