• DocumentCode
    1770350
  • Title

    Polarization switching in stretched pulse fiber laser

  • Author

    Chengbo Mou ; Sergeyev, Sergey V. ; Arif, Raz ; Rozhin, Aleksey ; Kolpakov, Stanislav ; Zuxing Zhang ; Turitsyn, S.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We studied experimentally polarization dynamics in a carbon nanotube mode locked stretched pulse fiber laser. For the first time, polarization locked, regular and irregular polarization switching have been observed at the microsecond time scale.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; optical fibre polarisation; optical switches; C; carbon nanotube mode locked stretched pulse fiber laser; microsecond time scale; polarization dynamics; polarization switching; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988871