Title :
Generation of self-starting mode-locked pulses in wavelength-swept fiber lasers
Author :
Seok Hyun Yun ; Byoung Yoon Kim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We have demonstrated a wavelength-swept Er/sup 3+/-doped fiber laser (WSFL) that produces self-starting mode-locked pulses without the help of a frequency shifted feedback. A wide wavelength scan range over 28 nm with a linewidth of 0.09 nm has been demonstrated. The WSFL can be used as an effectively broadband source and has recently been applied to demodulation of fiber Bragg grating sensor arrays.
Keywords :
demodulation; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical modulation; Er/sup 3+/-doped fiber laser; broadband source; demodulation; fiber Bragg grating sensor arrays; frequency shifted feedback; linewidth; self-starting mode-locked pulses; wavelength-swept fiber lasers; wide wavelength scan range; Demodulation; Erbium; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Sensor arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.675933
