• DocumentCode
    3521034
  • Title

    Broadband Wavelength-Tunable Harmonically Mode-Locked Fiber Ring Laser Using a Bismuth-Oxide-Based Erbium-Doped Fiber and a Bismuth-Oxide-Based Highly Nonlinear Fiber

  • Author

    Fukuchi, Yutaka ; Yamada, Shigeru ; Maeda, Jukai

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a harmonically mode-locked laser employing a 151-cm-long bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber and a 250-cm-long bismuth-oxide-based nonlinear fiber. Stable 10-GHz short pulses are obtained with a 60-nm tuning range covering both the C- and L-bands.
  • Keywords
    bismuth compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; ring lasers; Bi2O3:Er; C-band; L-band; broadband wavelength tuning; frequency 10 GHz; harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser; nonlinear fiber; short pulses; size 151 cm; size 260 cm; supermode noise; wide gain bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Ring lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528168
  • Filename
    4528168