10-GHz dispersion-managed soliton fiber-optical parametric oscillator using regenerative mode locking.
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.
Devgan
Preetpaul S
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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
Lasri
Jacob
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Tang
Renyong
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Grigoryan
Vladimir S
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Kath
William L
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Kumar
Prem
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