• DocumentCode
    1623235
  • Title

    Gigahertz self-sustained pulsations in chirped distributed feedback fiber lasers

  • Author

    Liao, Yuan-Hwang ; Winful, Herbert G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    164
  • Lastpage
    165
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present a model to analyze the dynamics of erbium doped chirped-grating distributed feedback (DFB) fiber lasers. Our results show that an asymmetrically chirped DFB fiber laser can undergo sustained self-pulsations at frequencies >5 GHz. These pulsations result from the beating between two asymmetric longitudinal modes with different frequencies but similar gains
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; distributed feedback lasers; fibre lasers; laser modes; laser theory; optical modulation; 5 GHz; Er doped chirped-grating DFB fiber lasers; asymmetric longitudinal modes; asymmetrically chirped DFB fiber laser; chirped distributed feedback fiber lasers; gigahertz self-sustained pulsations; sustained self-pulsations; Chirp; Distributed feedback devices; Equations; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dallas, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-480-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1997.719787
  • Filename
    719787