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We demonstrate a harmonically mode-locked dispersion-managed polarization-maintaining erbium fiber laser that uses photonic crystal fiber for nonlinear pulse compression. The high nonlinearity and large anomalous dispersion of the PCF resulted in significant reduction in the cavity length and increased the long-term stability. The laser cavity, only 36-m-long, yielded stable 1.3 ps pulses at a 40-GHz repetition-rate, with supermode noise suppression of over 60 dB.
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Abedin, K.S., Kubota, F. (2005). A 40 GHz Polarization Maintaining Picosecond Modelocked Fiber Laser Employing Photonic Crystal Fiber. In: Kitayama, KI., Masetti-Placci, F., Prati, G. (eds) Optical Networks and Technologies. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 164. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23178-1_51
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