Title :
Formation, sprinkling, trapping and annihilation of pulses in passively mode-locked fiber lasers with modulated noise
Author :
Schwartz, Alon ; Weill, Rafi ; Katz, Michael ; Bekker, Alexander ; Smulakovsky, Vladimir ; Fischer, Baruch
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
Injection of modulated noise into mode-locked fiber lasers provides rich pulses formation and sprinkling effects with trapping and annihilation centers in the cavity. The lightning experiment demonstration is accompanied by statistical light-mode dynamics analysis.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; statistical analysis; modulated noise injection; passively mode-locked fiber lasers; pulses annihilation; pulses formation; pulses sprinkling; pulses trapping; statistical light-mode dynamics analysis; Background noise; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Temperature;
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
