Stable generation of ultrashort tunable pulses using a soliton fiber laser

Author

Endo, Michiyuki ; Ghosh, Gorachand ; Tanaka, Yuiehi

Author_Institution

Electrotech. Lab., Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

10-14 Aug 1998

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

62

Abstract

We obtained stable generation optical pulses with durations of 270 to 325 fs using a soliton fiber laser. The lasing wavelength is tuned continuously over a wavelength range of 60 nm from 1.532 to 1.594 μm by rotating a bulk band-pass filter inserted in the resonator with a repetition rate of 45.4 MHz. Since the noise density of the laser is predominated at lower frequencies, the cavity phase locking technique should be possible

Keywords

band-pass filters; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; jitter; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser transitions; laser tuning; optical filters; optical solitons; 1.532 to 1.594 mum; 270 to 325 fs; bulk band-pass filter; cavity phase locking technique; lasing wavelength; noise density; optical pulses; soliton fiber laser; stable ultrashort tunable laser pulse generation; wavelength range; Band pass filters; Fiber lasers; Laser noise; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Solitons; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics '98: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4950-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1998.710178

Filename

710178