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All-fibered high-quality low duty-cycle picosecond high repetition rate pulse sources

Christophe FinotGuy MillotStéphane PitoisJulien Fatome

subject

PhysicsOptical fiberRepetition (rhetorical device)Pulse (signal processing)business.industryGeneral Physics and Astronomylaw.inventionOpticsQuality (physics)Picosecond pulselawDuty cyclePicosecondPulse wavebusiness

description

In this work, we demonstrate all-fibered 20-GHz and 40-GHz picosecond pulse sources with duty cycles as low as 1/14. The pulse train is achieved via the high-quality compression of an initial sinusoidal beating through four segments of optical fibers. We investigate the limits of the scalability to higher repetition rates.

https://doi.org/10.1051/anphys:2008009