Title :
10 GHz modelocked, dispersion-managed and polarisation-maintaining erbium fibre ring laser with variable output coupling
Author :
Bakhshi, B. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Zhang, X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Optoelectron. & Electr. Meas., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
fDate :
4/30/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A 10 GHz regeneratively modelocked, dispersion-managed and polarisation-maintaining erbium fibre ring laser has been constructed with a variable output coupling; it produced very stable and nearly chirp-free 3.2-8.1 ps sech2 pulses at 1560 nm. It is experimentally shown that the stable operation region of the ML EFRL is extended by increasing the laser output coupling
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; ring lasers; 10 GHz; 1560 nm; 3.2 to 8.1 ps; Er fibre ring laser; dispersion-managed fibre; laser output coupling; polarisation-maintaining fibre; regeneratively modelocked laser; stable operation region; variable outcoupling;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980612
