Title :
Ultrafast fiber devices
Author :
Ippen, Erich P. ; Haus, Hermann A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Soliton fiber ring lasers are attractive diode-pumped sources that can produce sub-picosecond pulses with tens of picojoule energies. With passive modelocking, solitons as short as 400 fs are generated at fundamental, round-trip, repetition rates of about 50 MHz with per-pulse energies of 10 pJ. Pulse initiation and stabilization is produced by nonlinear polarization rotation; steady-state characteristics are defined. And limited, by soliton effects
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical solitons; ring lasers; 10 pJ; 400 fs; diode-pumped sources; nonlinear polarization rotation; passive modelocking; per-pulse energies; picojoule energies; repetition rates; soliton effects; soliton fiber ring lasers; steady-state characteristics; sub-picosecond optical pulse generation; ultrafast fiber devices; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.739475
