Subpicosecond soliton pulse generation in the L-band using passive mode-locked figure-eight fiber laser

Author

Atieh, A.K. ; Tchouragoulov, S.

Author_Institution

Oprel Tech. Inc., Nepean, Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

262

Abstract

Summary form only given.Passive mode-locking schemes have been used extensively for generating soliton pulses around 1550 nm in the past couple of years. One of the configurations used is the figure-eight fiber laser (F8-L). These fiber lasers have used standard erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA). Stable subpicosecond soliton pulses are generated in the L-band wavelength range using passive mode-locked F8-L without any environment control. An L-band EDFA is placed asymmetrically in the nonlinear loop. Soliton pulses with full width at half maximum as short as 200 fs are generated around 1590 nm.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; 1550 nm; EDFA; L-band; L-band wavelength range; figure-eight fiber laser; nonlinear loop; passive mode-locked F8-L; passive mode-locked figure-eight fiber laser; soliton pulse generation; stable subpicosecond soliton pulses; standard erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; subpicosecond soliton pulse generation; Fiber lasers; L-band; Laser theory; Optical fiber theory; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906989

Filename

906989