Mode-locked fiber laser based on chalcogenide microwires

被引：9

作者：

Al-Kadry, Alaa ^{[1
]}

El Amraoui, Mohammed ^{[2
]}

Messaddeq, Younes ^{[2
]}

Rochette, Martin ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] McGill Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Montreal, PQ H3A 0E9, Canada

[2] Univ Laval, COPL, Quebec City, PQ G1V 0A6, Canada

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2015年 / 40卷 / 18期

基金：

加拿大创新基金会;

关键词：

NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; NOISE-LIKE PULSES; RING LASER; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; SOLITONS; LOCKING; REGIMES;

D O I：

10.1364/OL.40.004309

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report the first mode-locked fiber laser using a chalco-genide microwire as the nonlinear medium. The laser is passively mode-locked with nonlinear polarization rotation and can be adjusted for the emission of solitons or noise-like pulses. The use of the microwire leads to a mode-locking threshold at the microwatt level and shortens the cavity length by 4 orders of magnitude with respect to other lasers of its kind. The controlled birefringence of the microwire, combined with a linear polarizer in the cavity, enables multi-wavelength laser operation with tunable central wavelength, switchable wavelength separation, and a variable number of laser wavelengths. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：4309 / 4312

页数：4

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