Shaping ability of all fiber coherent pulse stacker

Pulse stacking is an effective method to generate a long-shaped pulse from short pulses. In this paper, we study all-fiber coherent pulse stacking systematically; we show that the time delays and phase differences between the short pulses are the key parameters of the stacked pulse. The permitted variation of the time delay and phase difference are obtained. The ability of the stacker to produce arbitrary pulse shapes is discussed.