Title :
Ultra-broadband wavelength-tunable harmonically mode-locked fiber laser using a short length bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber
Author :
Matsukawa, Masahiro ; Yamada, Saori ; Fukuchi, Yutaka
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo
Abstract :
We report a harmonically mode-locked fiber laser employing a 151-cm-long bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber. Near-transform-limited short pulses at 10 GHz are obtained with an ultra-broadband wavelength tuning range of 83 nm covering both the C-band and the L-band.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; Bi2O3:Er; C-band; L-band; frequency 10 GHz; harmonically mode-locked fiber laser; near-transform-limited short pulses; short length bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber; size 151 cm; ultrabroadband wavelength-tunable fiber laser; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; fibers; lasers; mode-locked lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2625-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2626-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598787
