Title :
Alternate multiwavelength picosecond fiber laser
Author :
Vasseur, Jerome ; Hanna, Marc ; Malassenet, Franqois ; Goedgebuer, Jean-Pierre
Author_Institution :
CNRS, Metz, France
Abstract :
We demonstrate alternate multiwavelength pulsed operation of an actively mode-locked fiber laser by use of an unbalanced Mach Zehnder interferometer. Three pulse trains at three different wavelengths are obtained at a 1 GHz repetition rate.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; 1 GHz; active mode-locking; multiwavelength picosecond fiber laser; pulse trains; unbalanced Mach Zehnder interferometer;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6