• DocumentCode
    2536787
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4-8 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    783
  • Lastpage
    784
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Belek-Antalya
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3680-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343337
  • Filename
    5343337