Title :
Modelocked laser based on ytterbium doped holey fibre
Author :
Furusawa, K. ; Monro, T.M. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
fDate :
4/26/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors report the fabrication of a polarisation-maintaining, high-nonlinearity, anomalously dispersive, Yb3+ doped holey fibre and describe what they believe to be the first demonstration of a modelocked holey fibre laser
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser beams; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre polarisation; ytterbium; Yb doped holey fibre; Yb3+ doped holey fibre; anomalously dispersive holey fibre; fabrication; high-nonlinearity holey fibre; modelocked holey fibre laser; modelocked laser; polarisation-maintaining holey fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010402