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

Volume

18

Issue

12

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1311

Lastpage

1313

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.876747

Filename

1637706