Title :
Ultra-stable short pulse generation from an actively and harmonically mode-locked fiber laser employing a bismuth-oxide-based nonlinear erbium-doped fiber
Author :
Fukuchi, Yutaka ; Sekine, Taku ; Ohnaka, Kazuhiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a bismuth-based actively and harmonically mode-locked short-cavity fiber laser. A 1.5-m-long bismuth-oxide-based nonlinear erbium-doped fiber is used as both a gain medium and a noise suppressor, and ultra-stable 10GHz short pulses are generated.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; nonlinear optics; optical pulse generation; BiO2; bismuth-based actively mode-locked short-cavity fiber laser; bismuth-oxide-based nonlinear erbium-doped fiber; frequency 10 GHz; gain medium; harmonically mode-locked short-cavity fiber laser; noise suppressor; size 1.5 m; ultrastable short pulse generation; Cavity resonators; Laser mode locking; Masers; Noise; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; bismuth-oxide-based fiber; fiber laser; mode locking; noise; short pulse;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Photonics (MWP) and the 2014 9th Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (APMP), 2014 International Topical Meeting on
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
DOI :
10.1109/MWP.2014.6994501
