Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034329
