Title :
116-fs soliton source based on an Er-Yb codoped waveguide amplifier
Author :
Jones, D.J. ; Namiki, S. ; Barbier, D. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Haus, H.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A passively mode-locked soliton ring fiber laser is investigated that utilizes a 4.5-cm erbium-ytterbium (Er-Yb) codoped waveguide amplifier as the gain element. The resulting short cavity (1.3 m of fiber) eliminates multipulsing behaviour and reduces the effects of resonant sidebands, enabling generation of 116-fs solitons with a pulse energy of 160 pJ at a fundamental repetition rate of 130 MHz.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical solitons; ring lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 1.3 m; 116 fs; 130 MHz; 160 pJ; 4.5 cm; Er,Yb codoped waveguide amplifier; fundamental repetition rate; gain element; multipulsing behaviour; passively mode-locked soliton ring fiber laser; pulse energy; resonant sidebands; short cavity; soliton source; solitons; waveguide amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical waveguides; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons; Waveguide lasers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
