Title :
Wavelength and repetition rate tunable mode-locked laser at up to 640 GHz using reconfigurable wavelength selective switch
Author :
Schröder, Jochen ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate the first wavelength and repetition rate tunable mode-locked fiber laser at ultra-high repetition rates of up to 640 GHz. The mode-locking is based on dissipative four-wave mixing with a reconfigurable wavelength selective optical switch as the spectral filter.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; dissipative four-wave mixing; optical switch; reconfigurable wavelength selective switch; tunable mode-locked laser; Autocorrelation; Band pass filters; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4102-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4103-7
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2009.5219761
