Title :
Q-switched mode-locking of an erbium-doped fiber laser through subharmonic cavity modulation
Author :
Lee, Junsu ; Chang, You Min ; Lee, Ju Han
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
A Q-switched, mode-locked fiber laser based on cavity loss modulation at a subharmonic frequency of the fundamental intermode frequency spacing is experimentally demonstrated. This simple approach is shown to be capable of producing high quality Q-switched, mode-locked pulses.
Keywords :
Q-switching; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; Q-switched mode-locking; cavity loss modulation; fiber laser; intermode frequency spacing; mode-locked pulses; subharmonic cavity modulation; Cavity resonators; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Optical attenuators;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358796
