The generation and compression of 1.3 μm single-mode pulses was reported for the first time. The pulses with duration of 22 ps were obtained by modulating a DCPBH-DFB laser diode with comb current pulses, and nearly transform-limited pulses were observed with compression of a G-T interferometer. The pulse-width is 9. 3 ps, the peak power is over 200 mW and the repetition is 1 GHz. The time-bandwidth product is 0.39 and the compression ratio is 2.4. The experimental resultS are discussed in this paper.