Title :
Stabilising Er fibre soliton laser with pulse phase locking
Author :
Shan, Xiuming ; Cleland, D. ; Ellis, Abraham
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Labs., Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
A stabilisation scheme for a mode-locked erbium fibre laser which relies on locking the pulse phase with that of the drive source is reported. Using this scheme, the first bit-error-rate (BER) measurement on such a laser has been demonstrated. Stable error free operation at 2 Gbit/s and a received power of -26 dBm has been observed over a period of >0.5 h showing the potential suitability of the laser as a transmission source.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; solitons; 2 Gbit/s; Er 3+-doped fibre; bit-error-rate; error free operation; mode-locked fibre laser; pulse phase locking; received power; stabilisation scheme; transmission source;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19920113
