Title :
High Repetition Rate, Low Jitter, Fundamentally Mode-locked Soliton Er-fiber Laser
Author :
Chen, J. ; Sickler, J.W. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Kärtner, F.X.
Author_Institution :
Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge
Abstract :
Generation of low jitter 167 fs pulses at a fundamental repetition rate of 194 MHz from a passively mode-locked soliton Er-fiber laser via nonlinear polarization rotation is reported. Performance of the laser and potential applications are discussed.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; mode-locked soliton Er-fiber laser; nonlinear polarization rotation; Collimators; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Jitter; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452763
