Title :
Femtosecond laser using broadband erbium-doped bismuth oxide gain fiber
Author :
Sickler, J.W. ; Gopinath, J.T. ; Tandon, S.N. ; Sotobayashi, H. ; Petrich, G.S. ; Kolodziejski, L.A. ; Ippen, E.P.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A stable, femtosecond laser incorporating erbium-doped bismuth oxide fiber for high gain and broad bandwidth and an ultra-broadband oxidized saturable Bragg reflector for self-starting produces 78 fs pulses.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser stability; optical pulse generation; 78 fs; B/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Er; broadband gain fiber; erbium-doped bismuth oxide fiber; femtosecond laser; saturable Bragg reflector; self-starting fiber laser; stable laser; ultrabroadband oxidized reflector;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
