Title :
Noise characteristics of a polarization additive pulse modelocked fiber ring laser
Author :
Namiki, S. ; Yu, C.X. ; Tamura, K. ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, E.P.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
30 Oct-2 Nov 1995
Abstract :
Due to the recent commercialization of erbium doped fiber amplifiers, polarization additive pulse mode-locked (APM) Er-doped fiber lasers are intensively studied as candidates for inexpensive and compact short pulse sources. In most cases, the timing jitter is reported to be greater than several picoseconds. In this paper, we measure the noise characteristics of a polarization APM erbium doped fiber ring laser previously reported. We found its timing jitter to be as low as 144 fsec rms
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; jitter; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical communication equipment; optical fibre polarisation; 144 fs; Er-doped fiber lasers; compact short pulse sources; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; noise characteristics; polarization APM erbium doped fiber ring laser; polarization additive pulse mode-locked lasers; polarization additive pulse modelocked fiber ring laser; several picoseconds; timing jitter; Additive noise; Commercialization; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Noise measurement; Optical pulses; Polarization; Pulse amplifiers; Timing jitter;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2450-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484671
