Title :
Stretched-pulse additive pulse mode-locking in fiber ring lasers: theory and experiment
Author :
Haus, H.A. ; Tamura, K. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Ippen, E.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Stretched-pulse additive pulse mode-locking uses segments of fiber of large positive and large negative group velocity dispersion (GVD) in the cavity. The changes in pulse width per pass due to the varying GVD can be an order of magnitude or more. A theory is developed based on the master equation that covers this case of large pulse changes in one transit. The general predictions of the theory are verified by experimental results
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; master equation; optical fibre dispersion; ring lasers; cavity; fiber ring lasers; large negative group velocity dispersion; large positive group velocity dispersion; large pulse changes; master equation; stretched-pulse additive pulse mode-locking; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical pulses; Ring lasers; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
