DocumentCode
520437
Title
An 88 fs fiber soliton laser at 1.56 µm using a quantum well saturable absorber with an ultrafast intersubband transition
Author
Shohda, Fumio ; Nakazawa, Masataka ; Akimoto, Ryoichi ; Ishikawa, Hiroshi
Author_Institution
Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We report a 1.5 μm passively mode-locked fiber laser that uses an ultrafast intersubband transition (ISBT) in a quantum well as a saturable absorber. An 88 fs, 42 MHz soliton pulse was successfully generated.
Keywords
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; quantum wells; fiber soliton laser; frequency 42 MHz; passively mode-locked fiber laser; quantum well saturable absorber; time 88 fs; ultrafast intersubband transition; wavelength 1.5 mum; wavelength 1.56 mum; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser transitions; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Quantum well lasers; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Type
conf
Filename
5500015
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