• DocumentCode
    356488
  • Title

    Generation of 1O GHz pulse packets from an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser

  • Author

    Olsson, B.-E. ; Blumenthal, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Commun. & Photon Networks Lab., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    7-10 March 2000
  • Firstpage
    175
  • Abstract
    A method to generate packets of short (10 ps) high quality pulses directly from an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser at 10 GHz is demonstrated by locking the packet repetition frequency to the fundamental laser cavity frequency.
  • Keywords
    erbium; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber communication; optical pulse generation; packet switching; ring lasers; 10 GHz; 10 ps; Er-doped fiber ring laser; actively mode-locked fiber ring laser; fiber ring laser; fundamental laser cavity frequency; packet repetition frequency; pulse packet generation; pulse packets; short high quality pulses; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical packet switching; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-630-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2000.868556
  • Filename
    868556