Title :
An 88 fs fiber soliton laser at 1.56 µm using a quantum well saturable absorber with an ultrafast intersubband transition
Author :
Shohda, Fumio ; Nakazawa, Masataka ; Akimoto, Ryoichi ; Ishikawa, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
Abstract :
We report a 1.5 μm passively mode-locked fiber laser that uses an ultrafast intersubband transition (ISBT) in a quantum well as a saturable absorber. An 88 fs, 42 MHz soliton pulse was successfully generated.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; quantum wells; fiber soliton laser; frequency 42 MHz; passively mode-locked fiber laser; quantum well saturable absorber; time 88 fs; ultrafast intersubband transition; wavelength 1.5 mum; wavelength 1.56 mum; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser transitions; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Quantum well lasers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
