Title :
Passive harmonic modelocking of a fibre soliton ring laser
Author :
Grudinin, A.B. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Payne, David N.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
Reports passive, harmonic repetition rate stabilisation at frequencies ranging from 200 MHz to 1 GHz within a passively modelocked erbium doped fibre ring laser generating 1.4 ps transform-limited soliton pulses. From observations, it is postulated that the likely origin of the self-stabilisation is the long-range repulsive interaction of soliton pulses due to transverse acoustic wave excitation.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; optical solitons; ring lasers; 1.4 ps; 200 MHz to 1 GHz; Er 3+-doped fibre; fibre soliton ring laser; harmonic repetition rate stabilisation; long-range repulsive interaction; passively modelocked; self-stabilisation; transform-limited soliton pulses; transverse acoustic wave excitation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19931238
