title: 10-GHz dispersion-managed soliton fiber-optical parametric oscillator using regenerative mode locking.
abstract: We demonstrate a regeneratively mode-locked fiber-optical parametric oscillator that utilizes intracavity dispersion compensation to generate pulses at a 10-GHz repetition rate in both soliton and nonsoliton regimes. At the threshold pump power the generated pulses are close to fundamental solitons. At higher pump powers we found a significant deviation of the pulses from the sech2 shape. In addition, the use of an ultralow-jitter self-starting pump-pulse source in a regenerative feedback loop allows for a significant reduction of the signal's timing jitter and amplitude noise.
authors.affiliation: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3118, USA. devgan@ece.northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Preetpaul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Devgan
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lasri
authors.forename: Renyong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Vladimir S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Grigoryan
authors.forename: William L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Kath
authors.forename: Prem
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar