TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimized amplification of femtosecond optical pulses by dispersion management for octave-spanning optical frequency comb generation
AU - Nakajima, Yoshiaki
AU - Inaba, Hajime
AU - Hong, Feng Lei
AU - Onae, Atsushi
AU - Minoshima, Kaoru
AU - Kobayashi, Takao
AU - Nakazawa, Masataka
AU - Matsumoto, Hirokazu
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank M. Onishi, T. Okuno and M. Hirano of Sumitomo Electronics Inc. for providing us with front–end components. They also thank Y. Yoshimura of Topcon Inc. for data acquisition. The authors acknowledge helpful discussions as regards the optical power measurement with M. Endo and K. Amemiya of the Laser Standards Section of NMIJ. This work was conducted as part of the ‘‘Grant for Industrial Technology Research (financial support to young researchers)” program of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization.
PY - 2008/9/1
Y1 - 2008/9/1
N2 - We report a method for optimizing the amplification of femtosecond optical pulses by using dispersion management. The amount of dispersion provided to the seed optical pulse of an erbium-doped fiber (EBF) has an optimal region that enhances the output power of an amplifier. The power enhancement is accompanied by spectral broadening, which originates from adiabatic narrowing in the erbium-doped fiber. The amplified optical pulses can be used to generate an octave-spanning optical frequency comb (OFC) by employing a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF).
AB - We report a method for optimizing the amplification of femtosecond optical pulses by using dispersion management. The amount of dispersion provided to the seed optical pulse of an erbium-doped fiber (EBF) has an optimal region that enhances the output power of an amplifier. The power enhancement is accompanied by spectral broadening, which originates from adiabatic narrowing in the erbium-doped fiber. The amplified optical pulses can be used to generate an octave-spanning optical frequency comb (OFC) by employing a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF).
KW - Mode-locked fiber lasers
KW - Nonlinear optics
KW - Optical fiber amplifier
KW - Optical frequency comb
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U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.04.062
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.04.062
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:47349098611
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 281
SP - 4484
EP - 4487
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 17
ER -