Title :
Stable and ultra-wideband wavelength-tunable actively mode-locked fiber ring laser using a short length bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber
Author :
Fukuchi, Yutaka ; Matsukawa, Masahiro ; Maeda, Joji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo
Abstract :
We demonstrate an actively modelocked laser employing a 151 cm-long bismuth-based nonlinear erbium-doped fiber. Stable 10 GHz pulses are obtained with an 87 nm tuning range covering the CL-band.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; ring lasers; frequency 10 GHz; short length bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear erbium-doped fiber; size 151 cm; stable pulses; ultra-wideband wavelength-tunable actively mode-locked fiber ring laser; wavelength 87 nm; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ring lasers; Ultra wideband technology;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729173
