Study of a dispersion-tuned, harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser with a SOA

Author

Duan, L. ; Richardson, C.J.K. ; Dagenais, M. ; Goldhar, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

564

Abstract

Summary from only given. We have reported a simple scheme to suppress the SMN in dispersion-tuned, harmonically mode locked fiber ring lasers (DTHMLFRL) by introducing a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) into the ring cavity. Biased at its low-gain regime, the SOA suppressed the supermode noise (SMN) by 13 dB. Smooth wavelength tuning was achieved within 10 nm by varying the modulation frequency 0.25 MHz. 5.3-ps pulses were obtained at a repetition rate of 10 GHz. In this paper, we report the experimental study of this system at different driving currents of the SOA and compare some of the experimental data with result from numerical simulations.

Keywords

erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 5.3 ps; Er-doped fibre amplifier; dispersion-tuned harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser; driving currents; low-gain regime; modulation frequency; semiconductor optical amplifier; smooth wavelength tuning; supermode noise; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser tuning; Optical noise; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

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.2002.1034330

Filename

1034330