Characterization of a harmonically mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser and its application to optical communication systems

Author

Rocco Giraldi, Maria Thereza M ; Margulis, Walter ; Carvalho, Maria Cristina R

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., IME, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

211

Abstract

This paper describes a simple and stable harmonically mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser, that produces high power, 1.16 ps transform limited sech² optical pulses at 1564 nm at a repetition rate of 1 GHz. The temporal and spectral characteristics of the pulses are studied. Soliton transmission over 40 km standard non-dispersion-shifted single mode fiber is demonstrated using this laser

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; optical solitons; optical transmitters; ring lasers; 1 GHz; 1.16 ps; 1564 nm; 40 km; harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser; non-dispersion-shifted single mode fiber; optical communication systems; repetition rate; soliton transmission; spectral characteristics; transform limited sech² optical pulses; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical feedback; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 1999. SBMO/IEEE MTT-S, APS and LEOS - IMOC '99. International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5807-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.1999.867092

Filename

867092