High repetition rate, high average power, femtosecond erbium fiber ring laser

Author

Morse, J.L. ; Sickler, J.W. ; Chen, J. ; Kärtner, F.X. ; Ippen, E.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A 301 MHz fundamentally mode-locked erbium fiber ring laser generating 108 fs pulses is demonstrated. Novel combination of gain fiber with anomalous group-velocity dispersion and intra-cavity silicon with normal group-velocity dispersion yields a stretched-pulse operation.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; silicon; Er; Si; femtosecond erbium fiber ring laser; group-velocity dispersion; intra-cavity silicon; laser mode locking; laser pulse generation; stretched-pulse operation; time 108 fs; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Power lasers; Ring lasers; Ultrafast optics; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225303