Title :
Self-starting additive pulse mode-locked erbium fibre ring laser
Author :
Tamura, Keiichi ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, Erich P
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Nonlinear polarisation rotation has been used to additive pulse mode-lock (APM) a single loop erbium fibre ring laser. The system is fully self-starting without triggering and has been made to produce single pulses of 452 fs duration per round trip time.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; integrated optics; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical rotation; ring lasers; 452 fs; Er fibre ring laser; additive pulse mode locking; fully integrated laser; nonlinear polarisation rotation; self-starting; single pulses;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921430
