Title :
Integrated 2 GHz femtosecond laser based on a planar Er-doped lightwave circuit
Author :
Hyunil Byun;Dominik Pudo;Sergey Frolov;Amir Hanjani;Joseph Shmulovich;Erich P. Ippen;Franz X. Kärtner
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139, USA
Abstract :
An integrated passively mode-locked 2-GHz waveguide laser generating 285-fs pulses is demonstrated. It is based on a 500-MHz repetition rate laser integrated together with a pulse interleaver on a 45×50 mm silica waveguide chip.
Keywords :
"Circuits","Waveguide lasers","Optical waveguides","Pulse amplifiers","Ultrafast optics","Laser mode locking","Optical pulse generation","Optical pulses","Pump lasers","Optical pumping"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
