Title :
Mode-locking of a neodymium-doped monomode fibre laser
Author :
Alcock, I.P. ; Ferguson, A.I. ; Hanna, D.C. ; Tropper, A.C.
Author_Institution :
University of Southampton, Physics Department, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
A neodymium-doped monomode fibre laser operating at 1.08 pm has been actively mode-locked usmg intracavity acousto-optic loss modulation. The mode-locked laser output consisted of a train of pulses of less than 1 ns FWHM with an energy of ~ 17 pJ at a repetition rate of 41.45 MHz. When the laser was simultaneously Q-switched the peak power of the mode-locked pulses inside the 690 ns-wide envelope was enhanced by more than three orders of magnitude.
Keywords :
Q-switching; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical fibres; optical modulation; solid lasers; 1.08 microns wavelength; Q-switched; intracavity acousto-optic loss modulation; mode-locked pulses; monomode fibre laser; peak power;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19860184
