Title :
Mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser using intracavity polarization-maintaining loop mirror
Author :
Sun, H. ; Dong, H. ; Dutta, N.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
fDate :
6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Erbium-doped fiber lasers at repetition rate of 40 and 80 GHz are demonstrated in an injection-locked and rational harmonic mode-locked ring cavity. The cavity has a polarization-maintaining loop mirror. The injection-locking pulse is generated at repetition rates of 20 and 40 GHz from another rational harmonic mode-locked fiber laser. When these pulses are injected into the second fiber laser, pulses at twice the repetition rates viz. 40 and 80 GHz are produced
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; 20 GHz; 40 GHz; 80 GHz; erbium-doped fiber ring laser; intracavity polarization-maintaining loop mirror; mode locking; polarization-maintaining loop mirror; pulse generation; rational harmonic mode-locking; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power harmonic filters; Ring lasers; Optical fiber laser;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.876747
