Title :
Observing the spectral dynamics of a mode-locked laser with ultrafast parametric spectro-temporal analyzer
Author :
Xiaoming Wei ; Chi Zhang ; Bowen Li ; Wong, Kenneth K. Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We experimentally observe the spectral dynamics of a passively mode-locked fiber laser by using a parametric spectro-temporal analyzer (PASTA) with a frame rate up to 100 MHz, and different non-repeating transient dynamics has been observed.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; spatiotemporal phenomena; frequency 100 MHz; nonrepeating transient dynamics; passively mode-locked fiber laser; spectral dynamics; ultrafast parametric spectro-temporal analyzer; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Transient analysis; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
