Title :
Stabilization of an actively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser by multi-harmonic phase modulation
Author :
Vasseur, Jérôme ; Hanna, Marc ; Dudley, John M. ; Yu, Jianjun ; Barry, John R. ; Chang, Gee-Kung
Author_Institution :
GTL-CNRS Telecom, Metz
Abstract :
We demonstrate actively mode-locked operation of a fiber laser using a novel multi-harmonic phase modulation technique. By mixing two harmonics of the fundamental cavity frequency to drive a phase modulator, improved stability performance is observed
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical modulation; phase modulation; ring lasers; active mode-locking; erbium-doped fiber laser; fundamental cavity frequency; laser stabilization; multiharmonic phase modulation; phase modulator; ring laser; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Ring lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215514
