Title :
Design guidelines of actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers
Author :
Zhang, Xiupu ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Optoelectron. & Electr. Meas., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
Abstract :
This letter presents guidelines of how to design actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers to generate nearly transform-limited soliton pulses. The minimum fiber cavity length and/or dispersion, with which nearly transform-limited soliton pulses can be generated, need to satisfy an additional condition besides two previously known conditions of stability.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical solitons; ring lasers; actively mode-locked fiber ring laser design; laser stability; minimum fiber cavity length; nearly transform-limited soliton pulse generation; nearly transform-limited soliton pulses; optical fibre dispersion; Fiber lasers; Guidelines; Laser mode locking; Optical design; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Ring lasers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
