Title :
Active modelocking of miniature fibre Fabry-Perot laser in ring cavity
Author :
Yamashita, S. ; Hsu, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Frontier Inf., Tokyo Univ., Japan
fDate :
8/30/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Active modelocking at 10 GHz of a 10 mm-long fibre Fabry-Perot laser in a ring cavity is demonstrated. Very stable pulse trains without supermode noise were obtained. The pulsewidth was ~10 ps, which could be shortened to 1.6 ps by insertion of highly-nonlinear fibre
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; 1.6 ps; 10 GHz; active mode locking; fibre Fabry-Perot laser; optical pulse generation; ring cavity;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010744
