Gain Dependent Optimum Pulse Generation Rates of a Hybrid-Type Actively and Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

  • 발행 : 1996.04.30

초록

We have experimentally observed and theoretically analyzed the gain dependent optimum repetition rates of a hybrid-type active and passive mode locked laser pulses in an erbium-doped fiber laser of the figure-of-eight geometry by utilizing a nonlinear amplifier loop mirror (NALM) as a saturable absorber and a directional-coupler type electro-optic modulator as an active mode locker. Transform-limited mode-locked pulses of about 10 ps width were obtained at repetition rates which correspond to harmonics of the cavity fundamental frequency and depend on the optical amplifier gain in the NALM.

키워드

참고문헌

  1. Electron. Lett. v.27 no.6 Selfstarting, passively modelocked erbium fibre ring laser based on the amplifying Sagnacswitch Richardson, D.J.;Laming, R.I.;Payne, D.N.;Matsas, V.;Phillips, M.W.
  2. Electron. Lett. v.27 no.6 Subpicosecond all-fibre erbium laser Duling, I.N. III
  3. Electron. Lett. v.29 no.1 Generation of 98 fs optical pulses directly from an erbium-doped fibre ring laser at 1.57 mm Nakazawa, M.;Yosida, E.;Kimura, Y.
  4. Electron. Lett. v.28 no.15 Selfstarting passively mode-locked fibre ring soliton laser exploiting nonlinear polarisation rotation Matsas, V.J.;Newson, T.P.;Richardson, D.J.;Payne, D.N.
  5. Electron. Lett. v.28 no.24 Selfstarting additive pulse mode-locked erbium fibre ring laser Tamura, K.;Haus, H.A.;Ippen, E.P.
  6. Electron. Lett. v.28 no.23 Subpicosecond soliton pulse formation from self-mode-locked erbium fibre laser using intensity dependent polarisation rotation Noske, D.U.;Pandit, N.;Taylor, J.R.
  7. Opt. Lett. v.18 no.13 77-fs generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser Tamura, K.;Ippen, E.P.;Haus, H.A.;Nelson, L.E.
  8. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. v.33 no.10 Femtosecond Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser with Nonlinear Polarization Rotation Yoshida, E.;Kimura, Y.;Nakazawa, M.
  9. Electron. Lett. v.26 no.3 30 GHz picosecond pulse generation from actively mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser Takada, A.;Miyazawa, H.
  10. Electron. Lett. v.28 no.5 High-speed, mode-locked, tunable, integrated erbium fibre laser Davey, R.P.;Smith, K.;McGuire, A.
  11. Electron. Lett. v.28 no.14 Generation of sequences of ultrashort pulses in erbium doped fibre single ring lasers Fontana, F.;Grasso, G.;Manfredini, N.;Romagnoli, M.;Daino, B.
  12. Electron. Lett. v.29 no.13 20 GHz transform-limited optical pulse generation and bit-error-free operation using a tunable, actively modelocked Er-doped fibre ring Takara, H.;Kawanishi, S.;Saruwatari, M.
  13. Electron. Lett. v.29 no.21 40 GHz pulse generation using a widely tunable all- polarisation preserving erbium fibre ring laser Pfeiffer, Th.;Veith, G.
  14. Electron. Lett. v.31 no.5 20 GHz, 1.8 ps pulse generation from a regeneratively modelocked erbium-doped fibre laser and its femtosecond pulse compression Yoshida, E.;Kimura, Y.;Nakazawa, M.
  15. Proc. ECOC v.2 Generation of 800 MHz stable train of subpicosecond solitons from a Figure-8 fibre laser Khrushchev, Yu.I.;Dianov, E.M.;Richardson, D.J.
  16. Opt. Lett. v.19 no.3 Additive-pulse limiting Doerr, C.R.;Haus, H.A.;Ippen, E.P.;Shirasaki, M.;Tamura, K.
  17. Electron. Lett. v.30 no.13 Active-passive modelocking in a single polarisation erbium fibre laser Carruthers, T.F.;Duling, I.N. III;Dennis, M.L.
  18. Proc. SPIE v.2216 Harmonically mode-locked laser and applications Fork, R.L.;Singh, K.;Haus, J.;Erdmann, R.K.;Johns, S.T.
  19. Opt. Lett. v.15 no.13 Nonlinear amplifying loop mirror Fermann, M.E.;Haberl, F.;Hofer, M.;Hochreiter, H.
  20. Nonlinear Fiber Optics Agrawal, G.P.
  21. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. v.30 no.1 Operation of nonlinear loop mirror in a laser cavity Duling, I.N. III;Chen, C.J.;Wai, P.K.A.;Menyuk, R.
  22. Opt. Lett. v.9 no.1 The soliton laser Mollenauer, L.F.;Stolen, R.H.
  23. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. v.30 no.6 Experimental study of sideband generation in femtosecond fiber lasers Dennis, M.L.;Duling, I.N. III
  24. Opt. Lett. v.15 no.22 Pulse shaping, compression, and pedestal suppression employing a nonlinear-optical loop mirror Smith, K.;Doran, N.J.;Wigley, P.G.J.
  25. J. Optical Society of Korea Performance comparison between harmonically mode-locked ring and figure-of-eight type fiber lasers Kim, K.H.;Lee, H.K.;Jeon, M.Y.;Lee, E.H.;Song, C.S.;NamKoong, K.U.
  26. Opt. Lett. v.18 no.1 Harmonically mode-locked fiber ring lase with an internal Fabry-Perot stabilizer for sliton transmission Harvey, G.T.;Mollenauer, L.F.
  27. Electron. Lett. v.28 no.2 Stabilising Er fibre soliton laser with pulse phase locking Shan, X.;Cleland, D.;Ellis, A.
  28. Opt. Lett. v.18 no.17 High-power passively mode-lcoked Er-doped fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror Wu, S.;Strait, J.;Fork, R.L.