Abstract

An all-fiber amplification of highly chirped dissipative solitons (DSs) by stimulated Raman scattering in a standard passive fiber with continuous-wave pumping is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. DSs with a duration of 20 ps and a repetition rate of 15.6 MHz at a wavelength of 1275 nm are amplified by a pump wave at 1205 nm. On–off Raman gain dependence on the amplifier length and pump power, as well as the pumping configuration, are experimentally studied. Uniform amplification has been achieved with a net gain of 10 dB resulting in a pulse energy of 13 nJ at backward pumping. Further Raman amplification is limited by emerging the next Stokes component. The output pulses are compressed by a factor of 50 down to a duration of 400 fs. As a result, the peak power reached the level of 9 kW. The demonstrated scheme can be a simple and robust alternative to the widely used parametric amplification of chirped pulses outside the dopant amplification band, and the resulting pulses can be used in multiphoton microscopy and other applications.

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