Title :
Localization effects in fibers and lasers
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We present experimental results on localization effects in fibers and lasers. We first show that a mode-locked laser with intracavity dispersion is an optical “kicked” rotor that exhibits localization behavior in the frequency domain. We find for this laser system that for its proper pulsed operation a new self consistency condition dictates special resonances and dispersion modes, that depend on the laser cavity length and the pulse rate
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; dispersion modes; fibers; frequency domain; intracavity dispersion; laser cavity length; laser system; lasers; localization effects; mode-locked laser; optical kicked rotor; pulse rate; pulsed operation; resonances; self consistency condition; single mode fibre gratings; thin phase gratings; Diffraction gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical diffraction; Optical modulation; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Resonance;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rio Grande
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5947-X
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2000.890744
