• DocumentCode
    3129625
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2009.5219761
  • Filename
    5219761