Stable and ultra-wideband wavelength-tunable harmonically mode-locked short-cavity fiber ring laser using a bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber

Author

Fukuchi, Yutaka ; Maeda, Joji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate a harmonically mode-locked laser employing a 151 cm-long bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber. The cavity is as short as 8 m. Stable 10 GHz short pulses are obtained with an 87 nm tuning range covering the CL-band.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser tuning; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; ultra wideband technology; fiber ring laser; frequency 10 GHz; harmonically mode-locked laser; highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber; size 151 cm; size 8 m; supermode noise; ultra-wide gain bandwidth; ultra-wideband wavelength-tunable short-cavity laser; wavelength 87 nm; wavelength tuning; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Ring lasers; Ultra wideband technology; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032358