Theory of soliton stability in asynchronous modelocking

Author

Haus, Hermann A. ; Jones, David J. ; Ippen, Erich P. ; Wong, William S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

4

fYear

1996

fDate

4/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

622

Lastpage

627

Abstract

A new type of fiber laser modelocking is examined where a phase modulator is driven asynchronously with respect to a harmonic of the roundtrip cavity frequency. An asynchronous drive is able to produce high repetition rate (>1 GHz) soliton pulses that are shorter than the classic, active modelocking pulse width limit. It is shown that with a proper choice of fiber parameters, noise cleanup and soliton pulse shaping can be obtained using filtering and asynchronous phase modulation. Limits of asynchronous detuning are derived and a comparison with the parameters ranges for synchronous phase modulation is also presented

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser theory; laser tuning; optical modulation; optical solitons; phase modulation; 1 GHz; GHz soliton pulses; active modelocking pulse width limit; asynchronous detuning; asynchronous drive; asynchronous laser modelocking theory; asynchronous phase modulation; fiber laser modelocking; fiber parameters; high repetition rate; noise cleanup; phase modulator; roundtrip cavity frequency harmonics; soliton pulse shaping; soliton stability theory; synchronous phase modulation; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical fiber theory; Phase modulation; Power harmonic filters; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.491401

Filename

491401