Patent ID: 9172206
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: G02F,H01S

Abstract:
1. A fiber laser system comprising: a seed laser configured to generate a plurality of optical pulses; a controller configured to receive the plurality of optical pulses emitted from the seed laser and control an amount of chirping to be applied to each of the plurality of optical pulses to obtain chirped pulses; and an optical waveguide, having a characteristic of anomalous dispersion, configured to receive the chirped pulses emitted from the controller and cause soliton self-frequency shifts while the chirped pulses propagate in the optical waveguide so that a center wavelength of a pulse output from the optical waveguide depends on the amount of chirping in each of the chirped pulses, wherein the center wavelength is a first value when the amount of chirping is a first amount, the center wavelength is a second value when the amount of chirping is a second amount, the first amount is different from the second amount, and the first value is different from the second value, and wherein the optical waveguide has the characteristic of anomalous dispersion with respect to all wavelengths contained in each of the chirped pulses.