Title :
Use of a LiNbO3Modulator Gate in Amplification of Femtosecond Optical Pulses Generated by a Passively-Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser
Author :
Mizunami, Toru ; Kizaki, Naoya ; Kubota, Kenro
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan; mizunami@elcs.kyutech.ac.jp
Abstract :
127-fs, 4-kW pulses by a mode-locked fiber laser were gated to reduce the repetition by a modulator and amplified by an EDFA. The net gain of 50 was 11 times that without a modulator.
Keywords :
LiNbO; erbium-doped fiber; femtosecond pulse; fiber amplifier; fiber laser; micro processing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Ultrafast optics; LiNbO; erbium-doped fiber; femtosecond pulse; fiber amplifier; fiber laser; micro processing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569489
