Multicavity fiber laser

Author

Gómez-Pavón, L.C. ; Mendoz, J. G Ortega ; Berrospe-Rodríguez, C. ; Marti-Panameo, E. ; Luis-Ramos, A. ; Vergara-Limón, S.

Author_Institution

Fac. de Cienc. de la Electron., Benemerita Univ. Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla

fYear

2008

fDate

21-23 July 2008

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

28

Abstract

We report the experimental study of a multicavity fiber laser system conformed by an array of three erbium-doped fibers laser cavities. We have demonstrated that through the nonlinear interaction of evanescent fields among one cavity with active modulation and all the others it is possible to accomplish the mode-locking for all the laser cavities. Moreover, both temporal and spectral synchronous pulse generation between cavities is obtained with an appropriate selection of pump intensity, frequency modulation and coupling ratio.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; frequency modulation; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; JkJk:Er; active modulation; coupling ratio; erbium-doped fiber laser; evanescent fields; frequency modulation; laser modelocking; multicavity fiber laser system; nonlinear interaction; pump intensity; spectral synchronous pulse generation; temporal synchronous pulse generation; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical coupling; Pulse generation; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2008 Digest of the

Conference_Location

Acapulco

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1925-8

Electronic_ISBN

1099-4742

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2008.4590472

Filename

4590472