Open AccessA designed model and related theoretical analysis on optical pulse compressor based on a SOA and cascaded NOLM
Author(s) -
Jianwei Wu,
Xia Guang-Qiong,
Zheng-Mao Wu
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.53.1105
Subject(s) - pulse (music) , gas compressor , optics , optical amplifier , pulse compression , amplifier , bandwidth limited pulse , physics , optoelectronics , materials science , computer science , ultrashort pulse , laser , telecommunications , detector , radar , cmos , thermodynamics
A designed model of the optical pulse compressor, which is based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and cascaded nonlinear optical loop mirror, has been presented in this paper. The numerical simulations reveal that a ps optical pulse can be compressed into a fs pulse without pedestal.