Abstract
Interest on ultra-short optical pulse sources is rapidly growing due to the wide range of emerging areas where sup-picosecond pulses are providing new advances, from ultra-high-bit-rate optical communications (such as OFDM systems) to ultrafast spectroscopy and biomedical applications. Mode-locked fiber lasers are reliable, compact and cost-effective sources of stable sub-picosecond pulses [1]. Particularly, passive modelocking with fast saturable absorbers (SA), not limited by the speed of electronic signal generators, allows the generation of ultra-short pulses in the regimes of self-started passively modelocking (fast SA ML) and soliton modelocking
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