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Proposed is an approach to achieving a carrier-envelope-offset (CEO)-locked frequency comb with 25 GHz mode spacing in the telecommunications wavelength region. To achieve the approach, a 250 fs laser pulse train at a 25 GHz repetition rate was developed by intensity- and phase-modulating a seed light emitted from a continuous-wave laser diode and propagating it through a dispersive fibre. Using the authors' developed tellurite photonics crystal fibre with a high-nonlinear coefficient, octave-spanning supercontinuum generation in the 1.5 µm band from a 250 MHz gated pulse train for CEO frequency detection was demonstrated.
Inspec keywords: intensity modulation; holey fibres; phase modulation; optical fibre dispersion; laser mode locking
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Subjects: Optical propagation, dispersion and attenuation in fibres; Fibre optics; Electro-optical devices; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Optical beam modulators