Mode-locked, long-cavity, erbium fiber lasers with subsequent soliton-like compression

Author

Schlager, J.B. ; Yamabayashi, Y. ; Franzen, D.L. ; Juneau, R.I.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Standards & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

1

Issue

9

fYear

1989

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

266

Abstract

Erbium fiber lasers are described that have cavity lengths of 20-5000 m and are mode-locked at the fundamental cavity frequency using an integrated-optic intensity modulator driven by a novel pulse generator. Resulting optical pulses at 1536 nm were recorded with a synchroscan streak camera and show durations of 10-80 ps with peak powers over 6 W. The shorter cavities yield nearly transform-limited pulses, which are narrowed by solitonlike compression to approximately 5 ps after propagation through an external 14 km fiber.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre optics; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical modulation; solid lasers; solitons; streak photography; 10 to 80 ps; 14 km; 1536 nm; 20 to 5000 m; 5 ps; Er fiber lasers; cavity lengths; external fibre propagation; fundamental cavity frequency; integrated-optic intensity modulator; long-cavity; mode-locked; novel pulse generator; optical pulses; peak powers; shorter cavities; soliton-like compression; synchroscan streak camera; transform-limited pulses; Cameras; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency; Intensity modulation; Laser mode locking; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.43340

Filename

43340