Harmonically mode-locked, polarization-maintaining, and dispersion-managed erbium fiber 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

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

498

Abstract

Summary form only given. Actively mode-locked erbium fiber ring lasers (ML-EFRLs) have attracted much interest as sources of transform-limited short pulses for future ultrahigh-speed optical communication. In this work, we have constructed a 10-GHz regeneratively ML-EFRL with a polarization-maintaining dispersion managed cavity. We experimentally show that the stable operation region of the ML-EFRL is extended by increasing the laser output coupling. Furthermore, we carry out a detailed analysis of the ML-EFRL pulse quality.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse generation; optical repeaters; ring lasers; Er-doped fiber ring laser; actively mode-locked; dispersion-managed; harmonically mode-locked; laser output coupling; polarization-maintaining; pulse quality; regeneratively mode-locked; stable operation region; transform-limited short pulses; ultrahigh-speed optical communication; variable output coupling; Bandwidth; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Power generation; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676543

Filename

676543