Title :
Soliton mode-locked fiber laser using a modulator-based saturable absorber
Author :
Ruixin Wang ; Yitang Dai ; Ziping Zhang ; Hao Chen ; Yu Haijie ; Feifei Yin ; Kun Xu ; Jianqiang Li ; Jintong Lin
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a novel saturable absorber based on a dual-drive modulator with a feed-forward path for soliton pulse shaping. The fundamentally mode-locked laser produces 16.7-MHz repetition rate pulse train with 1.4-ps pulse width.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; dual-drive modulator; frequency 16.7 MHz; modulator-based saturable absorber; soliton mode-locked fiber laser; soliton pulse shaping; time 1.4 ps; Cavity resonators; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
