Title :
Stable and wavelength-tunable high-speed short pulse generation from a rational harmonic mode-locked short-cavity fiber laser using a bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber and a bismuth-based nonlinear fiber
Author :
Fukuchi, Yutaka ; Maeda, Joji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a rational harmonic mode-locked short-cavity laser employing a bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber and a bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear fiber. Stable short pulses up to 40 GHz are obtained over the wavelength tuning range covering the CL-band.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; erbium-doped fiber; nonlinear fiber; rational harmonic mode-locked short-cavity fiber laser; wavelength-tunable high-speed short pulse generation; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Power harmonic filters; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2