High-speed tunable photonic crystal fiber-based femtosecond soliton source without dispersion pre-compensation

Authors

  • Martín Caldarola Laboratorio de Electrónica Cuántica, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Víctor A. Bettachini Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
  • Andrés A. Rieznik Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
  • Pablo G. Konig Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
  • Martín E. Masip Laboratorio de Electrónica Cuántica, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Diego F. Grosz Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
  • Andrea V. Bragas Laboratorio de Electrónica Cuántica, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4279/pip.040001

Keywords:

Photonic Crystal Fiber, Optical Solitons, Femtosecond Pulses

Abstract

We present a high-speed wavelength tunable photonic crystal fiber-based source capable of generating tunable femtosecond solitons in the infrared region. Through measurements and numerical simulation, we show that both the pulsewidth and the spectral width of the output pulses remain nearly constant over the entire tuning range from 860 to 1160 nm. This remarkable behavior is observed even when pump pulses are heavily chirped (7400 fs^2), which allows to avoid bulky compensation optics, or the use of another fiber, for dispersion compensation usually required by the tuning device.

 

Received: 7 July 2011,  Accepted: 1 February 2012; Edited by: A. Goñi; Reviewed by: J. Chavez Boggio, Leibniz Institut f\ur Astrophysik Potsdam, Germany;  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4279/PIP.040001

Cite as: M. Caldarola, V. A. Bettachini, A. A. Rieznik, P. G. Konig, M. E. Masip, D. F. Grosz, A. V. Bragas, Papers in Physics 4, 040001 (2012)

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2012-02-13

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Caldarola, M., Bettachini, V. A., Rieznik, A. A., Konig, P. G., Masip, M. E., Grosz, D. F., & Bragas, A. V. (2012). High-speed tunable photonic crystal fiber-based femtosecond soliton source without dispersion pre-compensation. Papers in Physics, 4, 040001. https://doi.org/10.4279/pip.040001

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Vol. 4 (2012)

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Copyright (c) 2012 Martín Caldarola, Víctor A. Bettachini, Andrés A. Rieznik, Pablo G. Konig, Martín E. Masip, Diego F. Grosz, Andrea V. Bragas

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