Title :
Passive mode locking of a neodymium-doped fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror
Author :
Oh, Wang-Yuhl ; Kim, B.Y. ; Lee, Hai-Woong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea
fDate :
2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Passively mode-locked pulses have been generated in a neodymium-doped fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. Theoretical analysis based on the reflection properties of the nonlinear optical loop mirror yields a good description of the observed spectral and polarization characteristics of the mode-locked laser
Keywords :
birefringence; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; laser theory; neodymium; nonlinear optics; optical fibre polarisation; reflectivity; solid lasers; mode-locked laser; neodymium-doped fiber laser; nonlinear optical loop mirror; passive mode locking; polarization characteristics; reflection properties; spectral characteristics; Birefringence; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical reflection; Optical signal processing; Ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
