• DocumentCode
    1123991
  • Title

    Pulse stabilisation in harmonically FM modelocked erbium fibre ring laser with DFBLD

  • Author

    Kim, Y.J. ; Song, H.S. ; Kim, D.Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    15
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    7/21/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    837
  • Lastpage
    838
  • Abstract
    A new pulse stabilisation scheme for a harmonically frequency modulated (FM) modelocked erbium fibre ring laser using a distributed feedback laser diode (DFBLD) is presented. More than 65 dB supermode noise suppression in the RF spectrum was obtained with the proposed method. Effective reduction of supermode noise can be accomplished as the DFBLD in the fibre laser acts not only as a fast-gain saturated medium but also as an optical bandpass filter for suppressing supermode noise in a harmonically modelocked laser system.
  • Keywords
    band-pass filters; distributed feedback lasers; erbium; fibre lasers; frequency modulation; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical filters; optical modulation; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; RF spectrum; distributed feedback laser diode; fiber laser; harmonically FM modelocked erbium fibre ring laser; harmonically modelocked laser system; optical bandpass filter; pulse stabilisation; supermode noise suppression;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20051450
  • Filename
    1487736