Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.834107
