Amplitude equalization of high-repetition-rate pulses in a rational harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with a Fabry-Perot semiconductor modulator

Author

Zhao, Donghui ; Chan, K.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

422

Abstract

The generation of uniform pulse trains at tens of GHz from a rational harmonic modelocked fiber laser with a Fabry-Perot semiconductor modulator was experimentally demonstrated by employing pulse amplitude equalization based on nonlinear polarization rotation.

Keywords

equalisers; erbium; harmonics; laser mode locking; modulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor devices; EDFA; Fabry-Perot semiconductor modulator; erbium-doped fiber laser; high-repetition-rate pulses; nonlinear polarization rotation; pulse amplitude equalization; rational harmonic mode-locked laser; ultra-high-speed optical communication; ultra-short pulse source; uniform pulse trains generation; Amplitude modulation; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989696

Filename

989696