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Phase recovery by using optical fiber dispersion and pulse pre-stretching

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In this work, the applicability of a recently proposed phase recovery technique is extended, by using temporal pulse pre-stretching. As a proof of concept, the light pulses emitted by a two-stage laser system consisting of a sub-picosecond passively mode-locked fiber laser followed by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier were experimentally analyzed. These results were successfully compared with two indirect phase recovery techniques, both based on the Gerchberg–Saxton recursive algorithm and with the intensity autocorrelation when sub-picosecond light pulses were analyzed.

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This work has been financially supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ref. TEC2013-46643-C2-1-R) and the Generalitat Valenciana of Spain (Ref. PROMETEOII/2014/072 and GV/2012/121). C. Cuadrado-Laborde acknowledges the financial support from the Programa de Investigadores Invitados de la Universidad de Valencia (Spain).

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  1. Departamento de Física Aplicada y Electromagnetismo, ICMUV, Universidad de Valencia, C/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    C. Cuadrado-Laborde, M. Brotons-Gisbert, P. Pérez-Millán & M. V. Andrés

  2. Instituto de Física Rosario (CONICET-UNR), Blvr. 27 de Febrero 210bis, S2000EZO, Rosario, Argentina

    C. Cuadrado-Laborde

  3. TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    G. Serafino

  4. National Laboratory of Photonic Networks, Inter-university National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    A. Bogoni

  5. FYLA LASER SL, Ronda Guglielmo Marconi 12, 46980, Valencia, Spain

    P. Pérez-Millán

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Cuadrado-Laborde, C., Brotons-Gisbert, M., Serafino, G. et al. Phase recovery by using optical fiber dispersion and pulse pre-stretching. Appl. Phys. B 117, 1173–1181 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5941-8

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