Title :
4 GHz passive harmonic mode-locking in a single-clad soliton fiber laser incorporating carbon nano-tube saturable absorbers
Author :
Jun, Chang Su ; Choi, Sun Young ; Rotermund, Fabian ; Kim, Byoung Yoon ; Yeom, Dong-Il
Author_Institution :
Div. of Energy Syst. Res., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
We demonstrate an efficient increase of repetition rate in passive harmonic mode-locking of fiber lasers by engineering the cavity dispersion. Stable pulses with ~4 GHz repetition rate is obtained with a pump power of 358 mW.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre cladding; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; Er-doped fiber laser; carbon nanotube saturable absorbers; cavity dispersion; frequency 4 GHz; passive harmonic mode-locking; power 358 mW; single-clad soliton fiber laser; stable pulse generation; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276098
