Actively mode-locked fiber laser with semiconductor all-optical modulator

Author

Rusu, M. ; Herda, R. ; Vainionpaa, A. ; Suomalainen, S. ; Tengvall, O. ; Hakulinen, T. ; Okhotnikov, O.G.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

fDate

17-17 June 2005

Firstpage

527

Lastpage

527

Abstract

In this paper, we report on an actively mode-locked 1.56-mum erbium fiber laser using all-optical surface-normal semiconductor modulator. The 1.56-mum modulator is a purposely-designed semiconductor modulator mirror (SEMM) exploiting saturable absorption in the multiple quantum-well structure with enhanced modulation depth. Conceptually, the SEMM structure is very similar to the absorber mirrors used for passive mode-locking, except for higher values of saturation fluence and recovery time as compared to typical parameters for SESAMs

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor quantum wells; 1.56 micron; all-optical surface-normal semiconductor modulator; erbium fiber laser; mode-locked fiber laser; multiple quantum-well structure; recovery time; saturable absorption; saturation fluence; semiconductor all-optical modulator; semiconductor modulator mirror; Absorption; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568305

Filename

1568305