Novel technique for reduction of amplitude modulation of pulse trains generated by subharmonic synchronous mode-locked laser

Author

Attygalle, M. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Liu, H.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

Volume

14

Issue

4

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

543

Lastpage

545

Abstract

Subharmonically synchronous mode-locked and hybrid mode-locked lasers suffer from strong amplitude modulation at frequencies corresponding to injection signal frequency. In this paper, we demonstrate for the first time, significant reduction of amplitude modulation of pulse trains generated by a subharmonic synchronous mode-locked laser at 38 GHz using a nonlinear optical loop mirror. Experimental results as well as a theoretical analysis for the scheme are presented.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; intensity modulation; laser mode locking; multiwave mixing; optical limiters; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; 38 GHz; Kerr coefficient; amplitude modulation reduction; circulator; nonlinear optical loop mirror; optical fiber communication; optical intensity limiter; phase noise; stable optical pulse trains generation; subharmonic synchronous mode-locked laser; transfer function; Amplitude modulation; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Synchronous generators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.992605

Filename

992605