Thin-Film Fabry–Pérot Dispersion Compensator for Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

Author

Orsila, Lasse ; Herda, Robert ; Hakulinen, Tommi ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G.

Author_Institution

Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol.

Volume

19

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We demonstrate a dielectric thin-film Fabry-Peacuterot etalon operated as a dispersion compensator in a mode-locked fiber-laser cavity. The etalon generates anomalous dispersion near the low-loss spectral window and, consequently, the laser mode-locked by the semiconductor saturable absorber favors operation at anomalous dispersion regime without spectral filter. The etalon compensator is tunable, compact, easy to align, and suitable for picosecond and subpicosecond pulse operation

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; dielectric thin films; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical saturable absorption; Fabry-Perot dispersion compensator; Fabry-Perot etalon; anomalous dispersion; dielectric thin-film etalon; etalon compensator; fiber lasers; fiber-laser cavity; laser mode-locking; low-loss spectral window; picosecond pulse operation; semiconductor saturable absorber; subpicosecond pulse operation; thin-film dispersion compensator; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical films; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Resonance; Semiconductor lasers; Transistors; Optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber lasers; optical films; thin films; ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.888041

Filename

4032867