Flexible generation of coherent rectangular pulse from an ultrafast fiber laser based on dispersive Fourier transformation technique.

We propose a new solution to flexibly generate the coherent rectangular pulse from an ultrafast fiber laser based on the dispersive Fourier transformation (DFT) technique. The rectangular dissipative soliton (DS) spectra emitted from a net-normal dispersion mode-locked fiber laser is mapped into a time-domain coherent rectangular waveform through the DFT technique. The rectangular pulse can be broadened flexibly with the adjustments of the pump power. The coherence and shot-to-shot fluctuations of the achieved rectangular pulses are further verified by the Mach-Zehnder interference experiment and the recorded single-shot pulse train, respectively. The results demonstrate that the combination of DS mode-locked laser and DFT technique might be indeed an effective and flexible way to achieve highly coherent rectangular pulses.

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