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Since Maman first obtained laser pulse output in 1960, the process of human compression of laser pulse width can be roughly divided into three stages: Q-switching technology stage, mode-locking technology stage, and chirped pulse amplification technology stage. Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is a new technology developed to overcome the self-focusing effect generated by solid-state laser materials during femtosecond laser amplification. It first provides ultra-short pulses generated by mode-locked lasers. "Positive chirp", expand the pulse width to picoseconds or even nanoseconds for amplification, and then use the chirp compensation (negative chirp) method to compress the pulse width after obtaining sufficient energy amplification. The development of femtosecond lasers is of great significance.

A superradiance light source (also known as an ASE light source) is a superradiance-based broadband light source (white light source). (It is often mistakenly called a superluminescent light source, which is based on a different phenomenon called superfluorescence.) Generally, a superluminescent light source contains a laser gain medium that is excited to radiate light and then amplified to emit light.

Fiber polarization controllers create stress birefringence by wrapping the fiber around two or three circular disks, thereby forming independent waveplates that change the polarization state of light propagating in a single-mode fiber.

The semiconductor laser amplifier is small in size, wide in frequency band, and high in gain, but the biggest weakness is that the coupling loss with the optical fiber is too large, and it is easily affected by the ambient temperature, so its stability is poor. Semiconductor optical amplifiers are easy to integrate and are suitable for use in combination with optical integration and optoelectronic integrated circuits.