Experimental research of triangular optical pulse generation in normal dispersive fiber

Abstract

Generation of triangular optical pulses in conventional normal dispersive (ND) fiber is experimentally realized using a passive nonlinear pulse shaping method based on a combination of pulse pre-chirping, group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation in a section of ND fiber. It is found that by optimizing the parameters of launching pulse power level and ND fiber length, high-quality triangular optical pulses with nearly constant gradients of leading and trailing edges and linear frequency chirp profiles can be obtained for a wide range of different pulse pre-chirping values. For different pulse pre-chirpings, high launch power is required for triangular optical pulse generation. The tolerance of triangular pulse formation to ND fiber length and launch power level is improved with the increase of pulse pre-chirping, which means that it is easy to obtain triangular pulses for higher pulse pre-chirping.