Electronically controlled high-speed wavelength-tunable femtosecond soliton pulse generation using acoustooptic modulator

Author

Hori, T. ; Nishizawa, N. ; Nagai, H. ; Yoshida, M. ; Goto, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Quantum Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan

Volume

13

Issue

1

fYear

2001

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The compact system of electronically controlled high-speed wavelength-tunable femtosecond (fs) soliton pulse generation is realized for the first time using a passively mode-locked fs fiber laser, a polarization maintaining optical fiber, and an acoustooptic (A-O) modulator. The wavelength of the output pulses can be continuously tuned simply by controlling the input voltage into the A-O modulator. The wavelength of the soliton pulses can be changed at 2.5-μs intervals. Wavelength stabilization, time division wavelength multiplexed soliton pulse generation, and a wavelength scanner have been demonstrated.

Keywords

acousto-optical modulation; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser mode locking; laser tuning; light sources; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse generation; optical scanners; optical solitons; time division multiplexing; 2.5 mus; acoustooptic modulator; continuously tuned wavelength; electronically controlled high-speed wavelength-tunable femtosecond soliton pulse generation; femtosecond soliton pulse generation; high-speed wavelength-tunable femtosecond soliton pulse generation; input voltage; output pulses; passively mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser; polarization maintaining optical fiber; soliton pulses; time division wavelength multiplexed soliton pulse generation; wavelength scanner; wavelength stabilization; Control systems; Fiber lasers; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.903205

Filename

903205