Title :
Noise reduction in fiber ring lasers by use of a semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Xu, Lei ; Glesk, Ivan ; Baby, Varghese ; Prucnal, PAul R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
We analyze the high-pass filtering characteristics of the SOAs and show that the SOA carrier lifetime and saturation power will have important influence on its applications of beating noise suppression in fiber ring lasers.
Keywords :
carrier lifetime; fibre lasers; high-pass filters; laser noise; optical filters; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; carrier lifetime; fiber ring lasers; high-pass filtering; noise reduction; saturation power; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
