Patent ID: 11909165
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An optical pulse source comprising:
a drive unit configured to provide pump light at a drive power;
a passive optical fiber ring resonator optically coupled to the drive unit for receiving the pump light, the optical fiber ring resonator comprising:
at least one normal dispersion fiber segment characterized by a positive group velocity dispersion (GVD) per unit length; and
at least one anomalous dispersion fiber segment characterized by a negative GVD per unit length;
wherein the drive power, a net GVD of the optical fiber ring resonator, and a frequency detuning parameter of the optical fiber ring resonator are configured to generate one or more optical solitons in the optical fiber ring resonator, and wherein the one or more optical solitons each has a temporal duration from about 50 fs to about 500 fs, measured at full-width half-maximum; and

an output optically coupled to the optical fiber ring resonator for out-coupling a portion of each of the one or more optical solitons.