Dual-wavelength 10-GHz actively mode-locked erbium fiber laser

Author

Bakhshi, Bamdad ; Andrekson, Peter A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

11

Issue

11

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1387

Lastpage

1389

Abstract

We present the first 10 GHz dual-wavelength actively mode-locked erbium fiber laser (ML-EFL). Dual-wavelength operation is achieved by introducing two intracavity branches, each containing a tunable optical bandpass filter. A variable output coupler combining the filter branches also equalizes the effective cavity gain for the two wavelengths, By adjusting the filters and the coupler, dual-wavelength ML-EFL operation is achieved at different wavelengths. Nearly transform-limited, 4- and 6.2-ps-wide 10-GHz soliton pulses are e.g., simultaneously generated at 1542.3 and 1563.8 nm, respectively. The experimental results agree very well with analytical calculations.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical filters; optical solitons; optical tuning; 10 GHz; 1542.3 nm; 1563.8 nm; dual-wavelength GHz actively mode-locked erbium fiber laser; dual-wavelength ML-EFL operation; dual-wavelength operation; early transform-limited GHz soliton pulses; effective cavity gain; filter branches; intracavity branches; tunable optical bandpass filter; variable output coupler; Band pass filters; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.803054

Filename

803054