Polarization dynamics of mode-locked wavelength-swept fiber laser

Author

Seok Hyun Yum ; Byoung Yoon Kim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

220

Lastpage

221

Abstract

Summary form only given. Recently we have demonstrated the generation of self-starting mode-locked pulses in a wavelength-swept fiber laser (WSFL). The mode-locking mechanism is an interplay between an intracavity scanning filter and the nonlinear Kerr effect in optical fibers. The wavelength of the output pulse is shifted from pulse to pulse over a wide wavelength range of over 30 nm around 1550 nm. Such unique characteristics are expected to be useful for many applications, such as sensor interrogations, device characterizations, and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre polarisation; 1550 nm; intracavity scanning filter; mode-locked wavelength-swept fiber laser; mode-locking mechanism; nonlinear Kerr effect; polarization dynamics; wavelength-division multiplexing; Fiber lasers; Kerr effect; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.834107

Filename

834107