Self-organization of harmonic pulses in a passively modelocked stretched pulse erbium fiber ring laser

Author

Abedin, K.S. ; Gopinath, J.T. ; Jiang, L.A. ; Grein, M.E. ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, Erich P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

465

Abstract

In summary, we have reported self-stabilization in a harmonic passively modelocked stretched pulse fiber laser. With no active modulation or optical feedback, a highly stable and periodic train of 125 fs pulses with a maximum repetition rate of 220 MHz and average output power of ∼80mW was obtained from the laser. Supermode noise could be suppressed by more than ∼75 dB, with pulse to pulse timing jitter of 1 ps.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser stability; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; timing jitter; 125 fs; 80 mW; average output power; fs pulses; harmonic passively modelocked stretched pulse fiber laser; harmonic pulse self organisation; highly stable periodic train; maximum repetition rate; passively modelocked stretched pulse erbium fiber ring laser; pulse to pulse timing jitter; self-stabilization; supermode noise; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical feedback; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159382

Filename

1159382