Title :
Highly normal dispersion Er-doped fiber laser mode-locked with a SESAM
Author :
Cabasse, A. ; Ortac, B. ; Martel, G. ; Hideur, A. ; Limpert, Jens
Author_Institution :
CORIA UMR 6614, Univ. de Rouen, Rouen
Abstract :
We report on a passively mode-locked erbium fiber laser operating in a highly-positive dispersion regime. Highly-chirped pulses with 5.4 ps duration and 8 nm spectral bandwidth are generated. They are compressed down to 757 fs.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; JkJk:Er; erbium-doped fiber laser; high-chirped pulse generation; highly-positive dispersion regime; laser mode-locking; pulse compression; semiconductor-based saturable absorber mirror; spectral bandwidth generation; time 5.4 ps; time 757 fs; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; (060.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
