High speed pulse generation with adjustable output characteristics in the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength is a challenge due to the lack of high speed optoelectronic modulator operating at this band. In this paper, we proposed a MIR actively mode-locked laser based on cross-band all-optical injection modulation. The proposed laser is modulated by injecting 1.55-μm pump pulses into the specially-designed cross-band group-velocity-matched fiber. By numerical simulation, we studied in detail the evolution mechanism of the pulses and the influence of the cavity parameters on the output pulse features. It is shown that the laser is suitable for high repetition rate pulse generation up to 40 GHz at 2.771 μm, and the pulse shape can be flexibly adjusted. The proposed MIR laser has great potential in MIR free-space optical (FSO) communication.
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