Mode-locked fiber laser induced supercontinuum in telecommunication fiber

Author

Nikodem, Michal P. ; Waz, Adam ; Abramski, Krzysztof M.

Author_Institution

Laser & Fiber Electron. Group, Wroclaw Univ. of Technol., Wroclaw

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

341

Abstract

In this paper we describe our experiments with mode-locked fiber lasers. Amplified output pulses are used for supercontinuum (SC) generation in non-zero dispersion shifted fiber (NZ DSF). We show that wide output supercontinuum could be generated in standard telecommunication fiber using laser that is passively mode-locked by nonlinear polarization rotation.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; supercontinuum generation; mode-locked fiber laser; nonlinear polarization rotation; nonzero dispersion shifted fiber; supercontinuum generation; telecommunication fiber; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Ring lasers; Supercontinuum generation; fiber laser; mode-locking; supercontinuum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598806

Filename

4598806