Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion

Shuo Liu; Fengping Yan; Yang Li; Luna Zhang; Zhuoya Bai; Hong Zhou; Yafei Hou

doi:10.1364/PRJ.4.000318

Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 6, 318(2016)

Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion

Shuo Liu¹, Fengping Yan^1、*, Yang Li², Luna Zhang¹, Zhuoya Bai¹, Hong Zhou³, and Yafei Hou⁴

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of All Optical Network & Advanced Telecommunication of EMC, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

²Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China

³Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka 535-8585, Japan

⁴Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma Nara 630-0195, Japan

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Shuo Liu, Fengping Yan, Yang Li, Luna Zhang, Zhuoya Bai, Hong Zhou, Yafei Hou, "Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion," Photonics Res. 4, 318 (2016)

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Aug. 17, 2016

Accepted: Oct. 9, 2016

Published Online: Dec. 23, 2016

The Author Email: Fengping Yan (fpyan@bjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.4.000318

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