Actively mode-locked fiber optical parametric oscillator based on feedback idler

Author

Jianpeng Zhao ; Bin Luo ; Wei Pan ; Lianshan Yan ; Xihua Zou ; Hongna Zhu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report an actively mode-locked fiber optical parametric oscillator (FOPO) based on feedback idler which is reflected by a fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The idler-resonant FOPO, configured in ring cavity, is based on high nonlinear fiber (HNLF) and the feedback idler which is modulated by a phase modulator (PM) is poured into the ring cavity via a 3-dB coupler pumped by a continuous wave (CW). With the PM activated and the cavity length synchronized, a stable train of 50 ps pulses can be obtained at a repetition rate of 10 GHz.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; feedback oscillators; optical fibre couplers; optical modulation; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; phase modulation; CW; FBG; HNLF; PM; actively mode-locked fiber optical parametric oscillator; continuous wave; coupler pump; feedback idler; fiber Bragg grating; frequency 10 GHz; gain 3 dB; high nonlinear fiber; idler-resonant FOPO; mode-locked fiber optical parametric oscillator; phase modulator; ring cavity configuration; synchronization; time 50 ps; Cavity resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Actively mode-locked; fiber optical parametric oscillator; phase modulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617215

Filename

6617215