We report an all-fiber, all-polarization maintaining(PM) source of widely tunable(1800–2000 nm) ultrashort pulses based on the amplification of coherent self-frequency-shifted solitons generated in a highly nonlinear...We report an all-fiber, all-polarization maintaining(PM) source of widely tunable(1800–2000 nm) ultrashort pulses based on the amplification of coherent self-frequency-shifted solitons generated in a highly nonlinear fiber pumped with an Er-doped fiber laser. The system delivers sub-100 fs pulses with energies up to 8.6 nJ and is built entirely from PM optical fibers, without any free-space optics. The all-fiber alignment-free design significantly increases the suitability of such a source for field deployments.展开更多
基金Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyzszego(MNi SW)(IP2015 072674)Statutory Funds of the Faculty of Electronics,Politechnika Wroclawska(PWr)
文摘We report an all-fiber, all-polarization maintaining(PM) source of widely tunable(1800–2000 nm) ultrashort pulses based on the amplification of coherent self-frequency-shifted solitons generated in a highly nonlinear fiber pumped with an Er-doped fiber laser. The system delivers sub-100 fs pulses with energies up to 8.6 nJ and is built entirely from PM optical fibers, without any free-space optics. The all-fiber alignment-free design significantly increases the suitability of such a source for field deployments.
