Title :
A dispersion-managed, harmonically mode-locked fiber soliton laser
Author :
Carruthers, Thomas F. ; Horowitz, Moshe ; Menyuk, Curtis R. ; Duling, Irl N., III
Author_Institution :
Div. of Opt. Sci., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
A harmonically mode-locked Er-fiber laser with a strongly dispersion-managed cavity exhibits low-noise, dropout-free operation. A novel modeling technique reveals a stable regime of operation free from supermode competition
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; Er-fiber laser; dispersion-managed harmonically mode-locked fiber soliton laser; low-noise dropout-free operation; stable operation regime; strongly dispersion-managed cavity; Delta modulation; Fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5634-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1999.811963
