Title :
Subpicosecond soliton pulse formation from self-mode-locked erbium fibre laser using intensity dependent polarisation rotation
Author :
Pandit, N. ; Taylor, J.R.
Abstract :
Pulses as short as 765 fs have been generated from an erbium doped, unidirectional, fibre ring laser, mode locked using the effect of intensity dependent polarisation rotation. The output from the laser exhibits all the characteristics of temporal and spectral instability expected from a periodically amplified soliton system when the amplification length is a significant fraction of the soliton period.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical solitons; stability; 765 fs; Er doped optical fibre; amplification length; fibre laser; intensity dependent polarisation rotation; periodically amplified soliton system; self-mode-locked; soliton period; soliton pulse formation; spectral instability; temporal instability; unidirectional ring laser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921402
