Title :
Femtosecond all-fiber ring lasers
Author :
Tamura, K. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, E.P.
Author_Institution :
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Erbium-doped fibers make it possible to develop compact, all-fiber sources of femtosecond pulses in the 1.5 μm wavelength regime. In this paper we describe the operation of fully self-starting, passively modelocked, fiber ring lasers and discuss criteria for their design. Pulses with durations of 77 fs, and energies of 90 pJ and have been generated at a repetition rate of 45 MHz
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; infrared sources; laser mode locking; ring lasers; 1.5 μm wavelength regime; 1.5 mum; 77 fs; 90 pJ; compact all-fiber sources; erbium-doped fiber lasers; femtosecond all-fiber ring lasers; fiber ring lasers; passively modelocked; pulse duration; repetition rate; self-starting; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1263-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1993.379055
