Noise characteristics of femtosecond fiber Raman soliton laser with high-Q cavity

Author

Ding, Ming ; Kikuchi, Kazuro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

4

Issue

10

fYear

1992

Firstpage

1109

Lastpage

1112

Abstract

The amplitude noise characteristics of femtosecond optical pulses generated from a synchronously pumped all-fiber Raman soliton laser with high-Q cavity are investigated under different operation states of the laser. By suppressing the soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS) effect in the high-Q fiber cavity, real femtosecond soliton oscillation can be obtained in the laser. Low-noise 400 fs optical pulses with a white amplitude noise level of -120 dBc/Hz have been generated from the laser operating in such an SSFS-free state.<>

Keywords

Raman lasers; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; optical pumping; optical solitons; white noise; 400 fs; SSFS-free state; amplitude noise characteristics; femtosecond fiber Raman soliton laser; femtosecond optical pulses; high-Q cavity; operation states; soliton oscillation; soliton self-frequency shift; synchronously pumped; white amplitude noise level; Fiber lasers; Laser noise; Noise generators; Noise level; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Solitons; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.163748

Filename

163748