• DocumentCode
    1663429
  • Title

    Effect of the birefringent beat length on variability in passively modelocked fiber lasers

  • Author

    Marks, Brian S. ; Carruthers, Thomas F. ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Birefringence leads to sensitivity of the power transfer to polarization controller settings in passively modelocked fiber lasers that use nonlinear polarization rotation for fast saturable absorption. Shorter beat lengths lead to easier modelocking.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical control; optical fibre polarisation; optical rotation; optical saturable absorption; birefringent beat length; fast saturable absorption; nonlinear polarization rotation; passively mode-locked fiber lasers; polarization controller; power transfer; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Power lasers; Sensitivity; Standards;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326017
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1663429