• DocumentCode
    886412
  • Title

    High repetition rate figure eight laser with extracavity feedback

  • Author

    Dennis, M.L. ; Duling, I.N.

  • Author_Institution
    US Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    20
  • fYear
    1992
  • Firstpage
    1894
  • Lastpage
    1896
  • Abstract
    The operation of an erbium figure eight all-fibre laser with a fundamental repetition rate of 28.5 MHz is reported. The feedback of light rejected by the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror back into the laser is found to stabilise mode locking, enhance startup, shorten the pulse length to 275 fs, and provide a simple means of multiplying the repetition rate.
  • Keywords
    erbium; feedback; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; 275 fs; 28.5 MHz; Er doped optical fibre; all-fibre laser; extracavity feedback; feedback; figure eight laser; high repetition rate; mode locking stabilisation; nonlinear amplifying loop mirror;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19921212
  • Filename
    161238