Title :
Experimental demonstration of first order phase in pulse formation in passive mode locked lasers
Author :
Gordon, Ariel ; Vodonos, Boris ; Smulakovsky, Vladimir ; Fischer, Baruch
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion, Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present the first experimental demonstration of "melting" and "freezing" of light pulses and modes in passively mode-locked fiber laser by applying external noise acting like temperature, verifying our (Gordon and Fischer) recent theoretical prediction.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; freezing; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; melting; external noise; first order phase; freezing; light mode; light pulse; melting; passive mode locked fibre laser; pulse formation; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Noise level; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Power lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
