Photonics (Oct 2021)

High-Peak Power Frequency Modulation Pulse Generation in Cascaded Fiber Configurations with Inscribed Fiber Bragg Grating Arrays

  • Aleksei Abramov,
  • Igor Zolotovskii,
  • Vladimir Kamynin,
  • Victor Prikhodko,
  • Aleksei Tregubov,
  • Dmitrii Stoliarov,
  • Marina Yavtushenko,
  • Andrei Fotiadi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8110471
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 11
p. 471

Abstract

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We explored the dynamics of frequency-modulated (FM) pulses in a cascaded fiber configuration comprising one active and one passive optical fiber with multiple fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) of different periods inscribed over the fiber configuration length. We present a theoretical formalism to describe the mechanisms of the FM pulse amplification and pulse compression in such fiber cascades resulting in peak powers up to ~0.7 MW. In combination with the decreasing dispersion fibers, the considered cascade configuration enables pico- and sub-picosecond pulse trains with a sub-terahertz repetition rate and sub-kW peak power generated directly from the continuous optical signal.

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