Stretched-pulse fiber laser mode-locked with dispersive saturable absorber mirror

Author

Guina, M. ; Xiang, N. ; Vainionpaa, A. ; Suomalainen, S. ; Lyytikainen, J. ; Orsila, L. ; Okhotnikov, O.G. ; Sajavaara, T.

Author_Institution

Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

523

Abstract

Summary from only given. We demonstrate for the first time that a dispersive saturable absorption mirror (D-SAM) with positive group velocity dispersion (GVD) can be used for implementing a short cavity stretched-pulse fiber laser without employing dispersion compensating fiber. Changing the amount of negative dispersion, accomplished by the wavelength tuning, allows for direct comparison of pulse energy extraction in the soliton supporting dispersion regime and in stretched pulse mode-locking regime.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; negative dispersion; positive group velocity dispersion; pulse energy extraction; short cavity stretched-pulse fiber laser; soliton supporting dispersion regime; stretched pulse mode-locking regime; wavelength tuning; Dispersion; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034278

Filename

1034278