Stabilization of passive harmonic mode-locking by amplitude modulation

Author

Okhotnikov, O.G. ; Guina, M. ; Pessa, M.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

14

Issue

2

fYear

2002

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

148

Abstract

We demonstrate a fiber laser that is passively mode locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber and stabilized by the amplitude modulation. The synchronization of a dropout-free harmonic mode locking to an external clock was obtained with the pulse characteristics solely determined by the saturable absorber action, and not by the applied amplitude modulation. The results show that significant suppression of undesired harmonics can be obtained with small perturbations provided by the amplitude modulation.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical modulation; optical saturable absorption; synchronisation; amplitude modulation; dropout-free harmonic mode locking synchronization; external clock; fiber laser; harmonic suppression; passive harmonic mode-locking stabilization; pulse characteristics; semiconductor saturable absorber; small perturbations; Amplitude modulation; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.980474

Filename

980474