A 10-GHz 1.9-ps actively mode-locked fiber-integrated ring laser at 1.3 /spl mu/m

Author

Guy, M.J. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Wakita, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

223

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have reported a novel 10-GHz actively mode-locked laser operating at 1.3 /spl mu/m. The cavity design utilized a discrete semiconductor laser amplifier as the gain medium and an electroabsorption amplitude modulator. The laser was found to be tunable over a range of 10 nm and generated near transform-limited pulses as short as 1.9 ps.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical transmitters; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 1.3 micron; 1.9 ps; 10 GHz; Raman amplifier; actively mode-locked laser; all fiber-pigtailed elements; cavity design; discrete semiconductor laser amplifier; electroabsorption amplitude modulator; fiber-integrated ring laser; transform-limited pulses; tunable laser; Amplitude modulation; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;

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.1998.676083

Filename

676083