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eXtreme chirped pulse oscillator operating in the nanosecond stretched pulse regime
Shinwook Lee1, Dimitrios Mandridis, Peter J Delfyett
1The College of Optics and Photonics, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) / Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE), University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando FL 32816-2700, USA.
Abstract:
An eXtreme Chirped Pulse Oscillator (XCPO) implemented with a Theta cavity and based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is presented for generating 10 ns frequency-swept pulses and 3.6 ps compressed pulses directly from the oscillator. In this experiment, we show the two distinct characteristics of the XCPO which are the scalability of the output energy and the mode-locked spectrum. By using these characteristics, we obtain a pulse energy of 58.4 pJ from the stretched pulse and a mode-locked optical bandwidth of 14.6 nm (10 dB) directly from the oscillator. The laser cavity design allows for low repetition rate operation <100 MHz, as well. The cavity, significantly, reduces nonlinear carrier dynamics, integrated self phase modulation (SPM), and fast gain recovery in an SOA. Due to the laser's ability to generate directly frequency-swept pulses from the oscillator, this oscillator can be used for high speed frequency-swept optical coherence tomography (OCT) and time-stretched photonic analog to digital converters (P-ADC).
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