A mode-locked ytterbium doped holey fiber

Author

Furusawa, Kazuya ; Monro, Tanya M. ; Baggett, J.C. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Turner, P.W. ; Richardson, D.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

320

Abstract

Summary form only given. Holey fiber technology promises the development of a whole new range of fibers with exotic optical properties including endlessly single mode guidance, high optical nonlinearity and anomalous dispersion at short wavelengths. Many of these properties are of great relevance to fiber lasers. For example, the possibility of zero dispersion wavelength in the visible allows the possibility of Yb/sup 3+/ doped fiber based soliton lasers operating around 1 /spl mu/m. Recently the first results on continuous-wave laser action within a holey fiber have been reported. In this paper we describe what we believe to be the first mode-locked holey fiber laser.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser feedback; laser mode locking; optical fibre polarisation; photonic band gap; ytterbium; AOTF; Fabry-Perot cavity; anomalous dispersion; continuous-wave laser action; endlessly single mode guidance; fiber based soliton lasers; frequency-shifted feedback; high birefringence; high optical nonlinearity; mode-locked fiber laser; polarization maintaining fiber; ytterbium doped holey fiber laser; Fiber lasers; Holey fibers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Silicon compounds; Ytterbium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947859

Filename

947859