Title :
Passive harmonic mode locking of soliton bunches in a fiber ring laser
Author :
Zhao, L.M. ; Tang, D.Y. ; Cheng, T.H. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Lu, C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
We report experimental observation of passive harmonic mode locking of bunches of single-pulse solitons or twin-pulse solitons in an erbium-doped fiber ring laser. It shows that harmonic mode locking is a general feature of the laser. The fundamental unit in a harmonically mode locked state could have various pulse compositions.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical solitons; ring lasers; JkJk:Er; erbium-doped fiber ring laser; passive harmonic mode locking; pulse compositions; single-pulse soliton bunches; twin-pulse soliton bunches; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser transitions; Optical fiber polarization; Optical retarders; Ring lasers; Solitons; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim, 2007. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1173-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1174-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2007.4391481
