Abstract
A regenerative Er-doped fiber amplifier system for a high-repetition-rate optical pulse train is
investigated for the first time. A signal pulse train with a wavelength tuning range of 18 nm is produced by a
passive mode-locked fiber laser based on a nonlinear polarization rotation technique. In order to realize the
amplification, an optical delay-line is used to achieve time match between the pulses' interval and the
period of pulse running through the regenerative amplifier. The 16 dB gain is obtained for an input pulse
train with a launching power of -30.4 dBm, a center wavelength of 1563.4 nm and a repetition rate of 15.3 MHz.
The output properties of signal pulses with different center wavelengths are also discussed. The pulse
amplification is found to be different from the regenerative amplification system for CW signals.
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