Title :
All-optical stabilisation of state of polarisation of high speed pulse train using injection-locked laser diode
Author :
Chan, L.Y. ; Chung, W.H. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Demokan, M.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., China
fDate :
9/12/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The randomly varying state-of-polarisation of the output pulses of a modelocked fibre ring laser is aligned by a mutual injection-locked laser diode without feedback control. The pulse width is 5 ps and the repetition rate is 3 GHz
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; light polarisation; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; 2.99 Gbit/s; 5 ps; all-optical stabilisation; high speed pulse train; injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode; modelocked fibre ring laser; mutual injection-locked laser diode; pulse width; randomly varying state-of-polarisation; repetition rate; state of polarisation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20020791
