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An ultrashort optical pulse generator based on nonlinear pulse shaping is proposed and demonstrated. With a spatial light modulator placed prior to a high nonlinearity fiber, \((\mu +\lambda )\)-evolution strategy is introduced to dynamically adjust the transfer function of spatial light modulator both in phase and in amplitude. Nearly chirp-free 2.2-ps optical Gaussian pulse and 0.73-ps optical Nyquist pulse with a repetition rate of 25 GHz are both achieved in simulation. The scheme also has a certain tolerance to phase quantization error of the spatial light modulator and power fluctuation.
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This work is supported by “973” Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (No. 2011CB301703), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61275032) and Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program.
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Wang, D., Yu, W., Huo, L. et al. Nonlinear pulse shaping-assisted ultrashort optical pulse generation. Photon Netw Commun 32, 213–217 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-015-0599-7
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