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Cross-phase modulation (XPM) mode-locking of fiber-lasers is an elegant realisation of an all solid state, compact ultrashort pulse source — which also has great potential for all optical signal processing applications [PHILLIPS]. The technique was first demonstrated for Er-doped fibers [GREER, STOCK]. In these experiments, an additional, undoped piece of fiber was necessary in order to achieve a XPM sufficient for mode-locking. An improved version was demonstrated in our own experiment with a Pr-doped fiber, where XPM took place directly in the active fiber itself [PETER]. We obtained 570 fs pulses at 1.3 μm from this ‘synchronously pumped’ fiber laser. In the following we describe this experiment, analyse in detail the pulse build up with the aid of numerical simulations and compare the theoretical and experimental results.
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Wegmüller, M., Peter, D.S., Onishchukov, G., Hodel, W., Weber, H.P. (1996). Femtosecond Pulse Generation at 1.3 μ from a Pr3+-Doped Fiber Laser Modelocked by Pump Pulse Induced Cross-Phase Modulation: Theory and Experiment. In: Waidelich, W., Hügel, H., Opower, H., Tiziani, H., Wallenstein, R., Zinth, W. (eds) Laser in Forschung und Technik / Laser in Research and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80263-8_9
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