Title :
Actively mode-locked miniature fiber Fabry-Perot laser (FFPL)
Author :
Yamashita, S. ; Hsu, K. ; Hayashi, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Frontier Informatics, Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Actively and harmonically mode-locked fiber ring lasers have been studied intensively because they can generate high-repetition-rate and transform-limited short pulses. However, their typical cavity length is 10-100 m, and the corresponding order of harmonics is 500-5000 for 10 GHz mode locking, which results in unstability due to the external perturbation and the large supermode noise. Use of an intracavity Fabry-Perot interferometer has been proposed to avoid the supermode noise. In this paper, we demonstrate stable active mode-locking operation at 10 GHz of a 10 mm-long erbium:ytterbium (Er/sup 3+/:Yb/sup 3+/) fiber Fabry-Perot laser (FFPL) in a ring cavity configuration.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; Fabry-Perot resonators; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; ring lasers; ytterbium; 10 mm; 10 to 100 m; Er/sup 3+/,Yb/sup 3+/-doped fiber Fabry-Perot laser; actively mode-locked miniature fiber Fabry-Perot laser; cavity length; external perturbation; high-repetition-rate pulse generation; intracavity Fabry-Perot interferometer; large supermode noise; ring cavity configuration; stable active mode-locking operation; transform-limited short pulses; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot interferometers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser stability; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-662-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947761
