Title :
Ultra-wideband wavelength-tunable actively and harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser using a bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber and a bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear fiber
Author :
Fukuchi, Yutaka ; Maeda, Joji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Tokyo
Abstract :
We demonstrate an actively and harmonically mode-locked laser employing a 151-cm-long bismuth-oxide-based erbium-doped fiber and a 250-cm-long bismuth-oxide-based highly nonlinear fiber. Stable 10-GHz short pulses are obtained with a 60-nm tuning range covering the CL-band.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; nonlinear optics; BiO-JkJk:Er; frequency 10 GHz; highly nonlinear fiber; mode-locked fiber ring laser; size 151 cm; size 250 cm; ultra-wideband wavelength-tunable laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers; Ultra wideband technology; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
