AM mode-locked fibre ring laser generating highly stable, higher-order optical pulse trains with a wavelength tuning range of 1535 nm -1560 nm

Author

Gupta, K.K. ; Onodera, N. ; Abedin, K.S. ; Hyodo, M.

Author_Institution

Kansai Adv. Res., Commun. Res. Lab., Hyogo, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

7-9 Jan. 2002

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

144

Abstract

Highly stable, higher-order optical pulses are generated in an AM mode-locked fibre ring laser via intra-cavity optical filtering. We show that a modulation signal which is a sub-harmonic multiple of the 3.48 GHz free spectral range of Fabry-Perot etalon can be used to generate optical pulses at a repetition frequency of 3.477 GHz with amplitude noise of 0.93% and a timing jitter of 1.2 ps. The laser is tunable over a wavelength range of 1535-1560 nm.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser tuning; optical filters; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; timing jitter; 1535 to 1560 nm; 3.477 GHz; 3.48 GHz; AM mode-locked laser; Fabry-Perot etalon; Fabry-Perot filter; Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator; amplitude noise; fibre ring laser; higher-order optical pulses; highly stable optical pulses; intra-cavity optical filtering; modulation signal; optical pulse train generation; pulse repetition frequency multiplication; timing jitter; tunable laser; wavelength tuning; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser stability; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2001. MWP '01. 2001 International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7003-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2002.981816

Filename

981816