Wavelength-tunable few-cycle optical pulses directly from an all-fiber Er-doped laser setup.

@article{Andrianov2009WavelengthtunableFO,
  title={Wavelength-tunable few-cycle optical pulses directly from an all-fiber Er-doped laser setup.},
  author={Alexey V. Andrianov and Arkady V. Kim and Sergey V. Muraviov and Alexey A. Sysoliatin},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2009},
  volume={34 20},
  pages={
          3193-5
        }
}
A simple design, which we believe to be the first of its kind, of an all-fiber-based optical source is proposed for the generation of widely tunable few-cycle pulses as short as 20-25 fs duration in the range of 1.6-2.1 microm. Few-cycle pulses are obtained by compression of femtosecond pulses from the erbium-doped fiber laser in a three-stage scheme that uses (i) the effects of the soliton compression and the Raman frequency tuning in the dispersion decreasing fiber, as well as (ii… 
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