Development of an Er:Fiber-based femtosecond laser at NTSC

Author

Yanyan Zhang ; Wenyu Zhao ; Sen Meng ; Lulu Yan ; Wenge Guo ; Shougang Zhang ; Haifeng Jiang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Time & Freq. Stand., Nat. Time Service Center, Xi´an, China

fYear

2014

fDate

19-22 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Femtosecond mode-locked lasers are key parts of optical frequency combs which allows a directly link from microwave frequency standards to optical frequencies. In this paper, we report on a 186 MHz mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber femtosecond laser developed for 9.2 GHz ultra-low-noise signal generation. This laser keeps mode-locked states within a large pump power dynamic range (from 300 mW to 1000 mW), and the relative intensity noise of the laser is about -118 dBc/Hz@1 Hz, below -130 dBc/Hz for frequencies higher than 10 Hz.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; frequency standards; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser tuning; optical pumping; Er:fiber-based femtosecond laser; femtosecond mode-locked lasers; frequency 186 MHz; frequency 9.2 GHz; microwave frequency standards; optical frequency combs; power 300 mW to 1000 mW; pump power dynamic range; relative intensity noise; ultra-low-noise signal generation; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical fibers; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics; Er; fiber-based lasers; mode-locked lasers; tunable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency Control Symposium (FCS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FCS.2014.6859967

Filename

6859967