Picosecond single-mode pulse compression using a 1.3 μm Fabry–Perot laser diode, a dispersion-shifted fiber, and a grating monochromator

Abstract
A single longitudinal mode optical pulse train with a full width at half maximum less than 7.2 ps was generated by compressing gain-switched pulses from a 1.3 μm multimode laser diode using a monochromator and a dispersion-shifted single-mode optical fiber.