Actively modelocked dual-wavelength fiber laser with ultra-low inter-pulse-stream timing jitter

Author

Pattison, D.A. ; Kean, P.N. ; Gray, J.W.D. ; Bennion, I. ; Doran, N.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng. & Appl. Phys., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

Volume

7

Issue

12

fYear

1995

Firstpage

1415

Lastpage

1417

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel dual-wavelength erbium-fiber laser that uses a single nonlinear-optical loop mirror modulator to simultaneously modelock two cavities with chirped fiber Bragg gratings as end mirrors. We show that this configuration produces synchronized soliton pulse trains with an ultra-low RMS inter-pulse-stream timing jitter of 620 fs enabling application to multiwavelength systems at data rates in excess of 130 Gb/s.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; jitter; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical solitons; 130 Gbit/s; 620 fs; Actively modelocked dual-wavelength fiber laser; Er fiber laser; cavities; chirped fiber Bragg gratings; data rates; dual-wavelength erbium-fiber laser; end mirrors; multiwavelength systems; single nonlinear-optical loop mirror modulator; synchronized soliton pulse trains; ultra-low RMS inter-pulse-stream timing jitter; ultra-low inter-pulse-stream timing jitter; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Gratings; Laser modes; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Pulse amplifiers; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.477267

Filename

477267