Repetition rate and wavelength tunable all-optically mode-locked fiber ring laser based on a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

O´Riordan, Colm ; Connelly, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 July 2010

Firstpage

670

Lastpage

673

Abstract

A repetition rate and wavelength tunable fiber ring laser that utilizes a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier as both a gain and mode-locking element is presented. 10.3 ps pulses at 10 GHz repetition rate are obtained across a 30 nm tuning range covering the entire C-band. The repetition rate is tunable up to 30 GHz via rational harmonic mode-locking.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; frequency 10 GHz; rational harmonic mode-locking; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; repetition rate tuning; time 10.3 ps; wavelength tunable all-optically mode-locked fiber ring laser; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; cross-gain modulation; mode-locked fiber ring laser; rational harmonic mode-locking; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2010 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Newcastle upon Tyne

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8858-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-86135-369-6

Type

conf

Filename

5580335