Noise of a regeneratively synchronized GHz passively modelocked fiber laser

Author

Yu, C.X. ; Grein, Matthew E. ; Hans, H.A. ; Ippen, Erich P

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. Erbium-doped fiber lasers (EDFL) are attractive as high repetition rate (rep-rate) sources for many applications such as telecommunications and A-D converters. Passively modelocked lasers can provide short pulses but usually have low reprate. Though passive harmonic modelocking or external TDM can increase the rep-rate of such lasers, they require extensive stabilization and/or suffer from poor timing jitter and supermode suppression. Recently we have demonstrated that by incorporating phase modulation (PM) and additive pulse modelocking (APM) in an EDFL, 480 fs transform limited pulses at 1 GHz can be produced with >60 dB supermode suppression.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; phase modulation; synchronisation; 480 fs; A-D converters; additive pulse modelocking; erbium-doped fiber lasers; external TDM; high repetition rate; passive harmonic modelocking; passively modelocked laser; passively modelocked lasers; phase modulation; poor timing jitter; regeneratively synchronized GHz passively modelocked fiber laser; short pulses; supermode suppression; telecommunications; transform limited pulses; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Jitter; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Polarization; Power harmonic filters; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909928

Filename

909928