Title :
Phase noise and supermode suppression in harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with a semiconductor optical amplifier based high-pass filter
Author :
Wu, Miag-Cbung ; Chang, Yung-Cheng ; Lin, Gong-Ru
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics, Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
The variations and trade-off between the single side band phase noise, supermode noise suppression ratio and pulsewidth of a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with an intra-cavity semiconductor optical amplifier based high-pass filter are discussed.
Keywords :
erbium; high-pass filters; laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; optical filters; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser; high-pass filter; intra-cavity semiconductor optical amplifier; pulsewidth; single side band phase noise; supermode noise suppression ratio; supermode suppression; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical fiber filters; Optical noise; Phase noise; Power harmonic filters; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.193133
