Direct generation of subpicosecond chirp-free pulses at 10 GHz from a nonpolarization maintaining actively mode-locked fiber ring laser

Author

Li, Jie ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Bakhshi, Bamdad

Author_Institution

Photonics Lab., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

12

Issue

9

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1150

Lastpage

1152

Abstract

0.7-1.3 ps highly stable, transform-limited, sech/sup 2/-shaped pulses at 10 GHz in the 1536-1569 nm wavelength region from a nonpolarization maintaining (PM), single intensity modulator, actively and harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser have been directly generated. Little degradation of long-term stability of the laser operation was observed due to the non-PM nature of the laser cavity.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; 0.7 to 1.3 ps; 1536 to 1569 nm; harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser; laser cavity; nonpolarization maintaining actively mode-locked fiber ring laser; ps highly stable transform-limited sech/sup 2/-shaped pulses; single intensity modulator; subpicosecond chirp-free pulse generation; Chirp modulation; Fiber lasers; Intensity modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.874218

Filename

874218