Title :
Noise reduction and pulse evolution of high repetition rate passively mode locked Er doped fiber lasers by harmonic injection locking
Author :
Margalit, M. ; Orenstein, M. ; Eisenstein, G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
fDate :
30 Oct-2 Nov 1995
Abstract :
We examined the noise properties and the temporal dynamics of the multimode injection locking process in an Er-doped fiber laser. The actively mode locked extended cavity diode laser, operating at 1.53 μm produced pulse trains with a repetition of 1GHz and pulse widths of 25 ps
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical communication equipment; 1.53 mum; 25 ps; Er-doped fiber laser; actively mode locked extended cavity diode laser; harmonic injection locking; high repetition rate passively mode locked Er doped fiber lasers; multimode injection locking process; noise properties; noise reduction; pulse evolution; pulse widths; temporal dynamics; Erbium; Fiber lasers; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Noise reduction; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2450-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484592
