Title :
A Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Only Based on D-Shaped Fiber
Author :
Lei Gao ; Tao Zhu ; Jing Zeng ; Wei Huang
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Optoelectron. Technol. & Syst., Chongqing Univ., Chongqing, China
Abstract :
A passively mode-locked fiber ring laser only based on one section of D-shaped fiber is proposed, where the nonlinear polarization rotation mechanism arises without polarizer or wave plate. By increasing the pump power, mode locking is self-started, a laser pulse with a repetition rate of 6.04 MHz is generated, and its evolutions of temporal, spectral, and polarization properties under different pump powers are discussed.
Keywords :
birefringence; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre polarisation; ring lasers; D-shaped fiber; fiber ring laser; laser pulse; nonlinear polarization rotation mechanism; passively mode locked fiber laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Pump lasers; D-shaped fiber; Passively mode-locked fiber laser; harmonic mode-locking; nonlinear polarization rotation;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2013.2287873
