A practical, 17.5 GHz, actively mode-locked polarization-maintaining Er/Yb co-doped Panda fiber ring laser

Author

Reddy, K. Venkata ; Duling, I.N. ; Dennis, M.L. ; Carruthers, T.F.

Author_Institution

PriTel Inc., Naperville, IL, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

25 Feb.-1 March 1996

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on a simple, practical, and extremely stable, actively mode-locked polarisation maintaining (PM) Er-Yb co-doped, Panda fiber ring laser. The ring consists of only five components and all were fabricated from Panda PM fiber. They are: fiber coupler, Er-Yb co-doped fiber, cavity length control fiber spool, a polarization sensitive isolator, and a Mach-Zender amplitude modulator.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; optical communication equipment; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre polarisation; optical isolators; optical modulation; ring lasers; ytterbium; 17.5 GHz; Er-Yb co-doped Panda fiber ring laser; Er-Yb co-doped, Panda fiber ring laser; Mach-Zender amplitude modulator; Panda PM fiber; actively mode-locked; cavity length control fiber spool; extremely stable; fiber coupler; polarization sensitive isolator; polarization-maintaining; Electrons; Erbium; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96

Print_ISBN

1-55752-422-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1996.907591

Filename

907591