Polarization Switching in an Active Harmonic Mode Locked Fiber Laser

Author

Lam, Huy Quoc ; Shum, P. ; Binh, Le Nguyen ; Gong, Y.D.

Author_Institution

Network Technol. Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2007

fDate

24-27 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Switching of polarization state of the output pulse train generated from an active harmonic mode-locked fiber laser by exploiting the birefringence of the fiber ring is reported. The laser can be forced to mode locking states of the two orthogonal polarization regimes by tuning or detuning the modulation frequency. Theoretical equations and simulation results are in agreement with experimental results.

Keywords

birefringence; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; light polarisation; optical pulse generation; active harmonic mode locked fiber laser; fiber ring birefringence; modulation frequency tuning; orthogonal polarization; polarization switching; pulse train generation; Birefringence; Fiber lasers; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-0-9775657-3-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-9775657-3-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519202

Filename

4519202