Compression and amplification of weak picosecond optical pulses using semiconductor laser amplifiers

GOVIND P. AGRAWAL; N. A. OLSSON

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989),
paper THI5

Compression and amplification of weak picosecond optical pulses using semiconductor laser amplifiers

GOVIND P. AGRAWAL and N. A. OLSSON

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1989

Baltimore, Maryland United States
24–28 April 1989
ISBN: 1-55752-086-0

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G. P. AGRAWAL and N. A. OLSSON, "Compression and amplification of weak picosecond optical pulses using semiconductor laser amplifiers," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, R. Bartolini, P. Liao, J. Bufton, and W. Krupke, eds., Vol. 11 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989), paper THI5.

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Abstract

The use of optical fibers for pulse compression has become widespread in recent years.¹ When an intense optical pulse propagates down a fiber, the nonlinear phenomenon of self-phase modulation (SPM) imposes a nearly linear frequency chirp across the pulse.

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