Title :
Tunable 40 GHz mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser using a nonlinear optical loop mirror
Author :
Cai, Tommy ; Chen, Lawrence R. ; Rochette, Martin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We demonstrate a tunable 40 GHz mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser incorporating a nonlinear optical loop mirror. The laser is tunable over the C-band and generates picosecond pulses with a timing jitter less than 710 fs.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; semiconductor lasers; C-band; frequency 40 GHz; mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser; nonlinear optical loop mirror; picosecond pulses; timing jitter; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343337
