A novel all-optical actively mode-locked semiconductor-fiber ring laser based on gain-transparent semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Jian He ; Chan, K.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

563

Abstract

Summary from only given. A novel actively modelocking ring laser which is based on the 1.55 /spl mu/m SOA as a gain medium and 1.31 /spl mu/m-SOA as a novel and simple purely phase modulator is proposed and preliminarily discussed. The total cavity length of the ring laser can be considerably shortened to minimize the impact of an environmental perturbation, and the gain fluctuations can be also removed.

Keywords

clocks; fluctuations; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 1.31 micron; 1.55 micron; actively modelocking ring laser; all-optical actively mode-locked semiconductor-fiber ring laser; environmental perturbation; gain fluctuations; gain medium; gain-transparent semiconductor optical amplifier; phase modulator; ring laser; total cavity length; ultra-short optical pulse generation; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser stability; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Power harmonic filters; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers;

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.2002.1034329

Filename

1034329