Broadband semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors in the 1.55-μm wavelength range for pulse generation in fiber lasers

Author

Xiang, Ning ; Guina, Mircea D. ; Vainionpää, Anne-Maria ; Lyytikäinen, Jari ; Suomalainen, Soile ; Saarinen, Mika J. ; Okhotnikov, Oleg ; Sajavaara, Timo ; Keinonen, Juhani

Author_Institution

Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

38

Issue

4

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

374

Abstract

Broadband low-loss semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) in the 1.55-μm wavelength range were monolithically grown by solid source molecular beam epitaxy using a Burstein-Moss blue-shifted Ga_0.47In_0.53As-InP distributed Bragg reflector. Absorbers with fast and slow temporal responses were used to start up and to stabilize a stretched pulse mode-locked fiber laser. Reliable operation at a fundamental repetition rate was obtained without multiple pulse break-up with pulse energy of over 250 pJ

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; fibre lasers; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; molecular beam epitaxial growth; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor growth; spectral line shift; 1.55 micron; 1.55-μm wavelength range; 250 pJ; Burstein-Moss blue-shifted Ga_0.47In_0.53As-InP distributed Bragg reflector; Ga_0.47In_0.53As-InP; SESAM; broadband semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; fast temporal responses; fiber lasers; fundamental repetition rate; low-loss; monolithic growth; pulse energy; pulse generation; reliable operation; slow temporal responses; solid source molecular beam epitaxy; stretched pulse mode-locked fiber laser; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Fiber lasers; Indium phosphide; Laser stability; Mirrors; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Semiconductor lasers; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.992550

Filename

992550