Generation of subnanosecond pulses in a cascaded Raman laser

Author

Joly, N.Y. ; Suret, P. ; Randoux, S.

Author_Institution

Univ. des Sci. et Technol. de Lille, Villeneuve d´´Ascq

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This article shows a cascaded Raman fibre laser delivering a fourth-order Stokes component that exhibits subnanosecond pulses at a repetition equal to the cavity FSR. The time evolution of total powers of each of the four Stokes components delivered by the Raman laser is obtained. An alternative design of a ring cavity, which includes a multiplexer and compensation of dispersion, is also presented to focus the study to the dynamics on the first Stokes component.

Keywords

Raman lasers; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; multiplexing equipment; optical pulse generation; cascaded Raman fibre laser; dispersion compensation; fourth-order Stokes component; multiplexer; ring cavity; subnanosecond pulse generation; time evolution; total powers; Fiber lasers; Laser theory; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386495

Filename

4386495