Synchronization of two passively mode-locked Er:doped fiber lasers using an acousto-optic modulator and grating design

Author

Jiang, Mian ; Sha, Wei E.I. ; Rahman, L. ; Barnett, B.C. ; Andersen, J.K. ; Islam, Md Nurul ; Reddy, K. Venkata

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

526

Abstract

Summary form only given. We synchronize two passively modelocked Er:doped fiber lasers of pulse width 4.5 ps by using a novel acousto-optic modulator and grating scheme. By measuring the cross-correlation of the two lasers, the interlaser jitter is extracted to be 1.3 times the pulse width. The temporal locking of lasers is important for telecommunication networks, measurement systems, and spectroscopy.

Keywords

acousto-optical modulation; diffraction gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; jitter; laser mode locking; synchronisation; 4.5 ps; Er:doped fiber laser; acousto-optic modulator; cross-correlation; grating; interlaser jitter; passive mode-locking; pulse width; synchronization; temporal locking; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Jitter; Laser mode locking; Optical design; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Pulse width modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

Filename

865010