Title :
190 fs passively mode-locked thulium fiber laser with low threshold
Author :
Sharp, R.C. ; Pan, N. ; Elliot, Jack
Author_Institution :
Electron. Syst., Raytheon Co., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We report a self-starting passively mode-locked thulium-doped silica fiber laser capable of 190-fs pulses. Mode-locking of the fiber laser was achieved with a band-gap-engineered saturable absorber fabricated monolithically along with the output coupler of the laser by MOCVD. Stable, single-pulse-in-the-cavity mode-locking was observed for a 2-m-long fiber laser utilizing a nanosecond response strained InGaAs detector.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; thulium; 190 fs; SiO/sub 2/:Tm; band-gap-engineered saturable absorber; self-starting passively mode-locked thulium-doped silica fiber laser; single-pulse-in-the-cavity; Autocorrelation; Diode lasers; Fiber lasers; Indium gallium arsenide; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Superlattices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
