• DocumentCode
    3519302
  • 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
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    3-8 May 1998
  • Firstpage
    110
  • Lastpage
    111
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.1998.675933
  • Filename
    675933