Multiple wavelength and wavelength switchable actively mode-locked laser based on semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

He, Jinwei ; Chan, K.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

15-19 Dec. 2003

Abstract

In this paper, a novel multi-wavelength and wavelength switchable actively mode-locked ring laser based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and cascaded fiber Bragg gratings has been proposed and discussed. Stable wavelength switchable mode-locked pulses have been obtained. Simultaneous multi-wavelength operation is also demonstrated using this scheme through properly designing the length of the ring cavity and the spacing between adjacent gratings.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; actively mode-locked laser; cascaded fiber Bragg gratings; mode-locked pulses; multiple wavelength laser; ring cavity; ring laser; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength switchable laser; Communication switching; Frequency; Gratings; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7766-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1276996

Filename

1276996