Passively mode-locked erbium fiber laser synchronized to clock using vertical-cavity semiconductor modulator driven optically with the 1.54-/spl mu/m laser diode

Author

Vainionpää, A. ; Rusu, M. ; Okhotnikov, O.G.

Author_Institution

Tampere Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

fDate

22-22 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

933

Lastpage

934

Abstract

Robust synchronization of a passively mode-locked fiber laser to an optical clock based on gain-switched semiconductor laser diode has been achieved. Owing to high nonlinear response of vertical-cavity semiconductor reflecting modulator, the locking mechanism is efficient and would allow for reliable synchronization of passively mode-locked laser at high harmonics. The clock is built entirely of standard telecom-grade components

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; light reflection; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; 1.54 mum; erbium fiber laser; gain-switched laser; laser diode; nonlinear response; optical clock; passive mode-locking; semiconductor modulator mirror; semiconductor reflecting modulator; standard telecom-grade components; synchronization; vertical-cavity semiconductor modulator; Clocks; Diode lasers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Optical modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Synchronization; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9217-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548317

Filename

1548317