Title :
Waveguide Array Fiber Laser
Author :
Chao, Qing ; Hudson, Darren D. ; Kutz, J. Nathan ; Cundiff, S. T.
Author_Institution :
$^{1}$JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
A waveguide array fiber laser is demonstrated. An AlGaAs waveguide array is used as a saturable absorber to achieve passive mode-locking in an erbium-doped fiber laser. The output consists of a very regular train of pulses. Autocorrelations show that the pulses consist of noise bursts due to incomplete mode-locking.
Keywords :
Absorption; Arrays; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical waveguides; Solitons; Waveguide lasers; Fiber lasers; mode-locking; spatial solitons;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2209411
