Title :
Short-pulse fiber lasers
Author :
Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, Erich P
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Fiber ring lasers with an erbium-doped segment of amplifying fiber can be mode-locked using polarization-additive pulse mode-locking (P-APM). The mode-locking process is via the optical Kerr-effect-induced polarization rotation of an elliptically polarized mode in the fiber. The elliptic polarization is produced by "rabbit-ear" fiber polarization controllers. Thus, the same fiber can be employed for the amplifying process and the mode-locking process, leading to a compact and environmentally stable laser design.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre polarisation; ring lasers; elliptic polarization; erbium-doped amplifying fiber; optical Kerr-effect-induced polarization rotation; polarization-additive pulse mode-locking; rabbit-ear fiber polarization controller; short-pulse fiber ring laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical design; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Ring lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
