Development of passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers using multiple quantum well saturable absorbers

Author

Hayduk, M.J. ; Krol, M.F. ; Pollock, C.R. ; Teegarden, K.J. ; Wicks, G.W. ; Kaechele, W.

Author_Institution

Rome Lab. Photonics Center, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

458

Abstract

In conclusion we have shown that the picosecond pulse widths generated by a Fabry-Perot erbium-doped fiber laser are correlated to the slow carrier recombination lifetimes of MQW saturable absorbers. By tailoring the lifetimes of the absorbers to specific values, picosecond pulse widths can be obtained. A highly robust and variable picosecond source can be obtained by merely changing the saturable absorber back mirror of the cavity

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; radiative lifetimes; semiconductor quantum wells; Fabry-Perot erbium-doped fiber laser; MQW saturable absorbers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; multiple quantum well saturable absorbers; optical correlation; passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers; picosecond pulse widths; saturable absorber back mirror; slow carrier recombination lifetimes; variable picosecond source; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Quantum well devices; Quantum well lasers; Solid lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.645516

Filename

645516