Title :
A femtosecond hybrid mode-locked Er-fiber soliton laser by asynchronous phase modulation
Author :
Tien, Ming-feng ; Hsiang, Wei Wei ; Lai, Yinchieh
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
An asynchronous mode-locked Er-fiber soliton laser at 2 GHz repetition rate is demonstrated experimentally. The pulse-width is 700 fs and the SMSR is more than 70 dB. We also observe quite different characteristics between asynchronous and synchronous modelocking.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical solitons; phase modulation; 700 fs; Er; SMSR; asynchronous modelocking; asynchronous phase modulation; femtosecond hybrid mode-locked Er-fiber soliton laser; pulse-width; synchronous modelocking; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Lasers and electrooptics; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7766-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1274514
