Title :
Widely wavelength-tunable and pulsewidth-variable 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, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a stable 10 GHz harmonically modelocked laser employing a 151 cm-long bismuth-based highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber and a bandwidth-variable tunable filter. The wavelength tuning range is 80 nm. The pulsewidth is varied from 7.8 ps to 23.1 ps.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber; frequency 10 GHz; pulsewidth-variable harmonically mode-locked short-cavity fiber ring laser; size 151 cm; time 7.8 ps to 23.1 ps; wavelength 80 nm; widely wavelength-tunable fiber ring laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ring lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
