Theoretical study of the passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser

Author

Salhi, Mohammed ; Leblond, H. ; Sanchez, F. ; Hideur, A. ; Chartier, T. ; Brunel, M.

Author_Institution

Lab. POMA, Univ. d´´Angers, Angers, France

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

651

Abstract

In this paper, the theoretical modeling of a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser, in an unidirectional ring cavity containing a polarizer placed between two halfwave plates, was considered. The phase plates allow to control the orientation of the eigenaxis of the fiber at each side of the polarizer. The fiber is assumed to be birefringent and to have gain, group velocity dispersion and optical Kerr nonlinearity.

Keywords

birefringence; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; modelling; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical polarisers; optical retarders; ring lasers; Er-doped fiber laser; eigenaxis orientation; fiber birefringence; group velocity dispersion; halfwave plates; optical Kerr nonlinearity; optical polarizer; passive mode-locking; ring cavity; theoretical modeling; Birefringence; Equations; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313712

Filename

1313712