Dispersion managed SOA fiber ring laser for a switching-wavelength pulse source

Author

Lee, K.L. ; Shu, C.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

313

Lastpage

314

Abstract

We have demonstrated the generation of a time and wavelength-interleaved pulse train from a fiber ring laser incorporated with a semiconductor optical amplifier. The laser switches at 4 GHz among 4 wavelength components with less than 1.1 dB variation in the optical power. The successful implementation of this scheme indicates the potential to generate a user-defined multiwavelength pulse train from a fiber laser, which is of great importance in WDM communications and photonic ADCs.

Keywords

fibre lasers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network management; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM communications; dispersion managed SOA fiber ring laser; laser switches; optical power; photonic ADCs; semiconductor optical amplifier; switching-wavelength pulse source; time-interleaved pulse train; user-defined multiwavelength pulse train generation; wavelength components; wavelength-interleaved pulse train; Fiber lasers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical switches; Power lasers; Power semiconductor switches; Pulse amplifiers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036383

Filename

1036383