Waveguide Array Fiber Laser

被引:22
作者
Chao, Qing [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Hudson, Darren D. [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Kutz, J. Nathan [5 ]
Cundiff, S. T. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, JILA, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Dept Elect Comp & Energy Engn, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[4] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[5] Univ Washington, Dept Appl Math, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
来源
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL | 2012年 / 4卷 / 05期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Fiber lasers; mode-locking; spatial solitons; PULSE GENERATION; MODE-LOCKING; SOLITONS;
D O I
10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2209411
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A waveguide array fiber laser is demonstrated. An AlGaAs waveguide array is used as a saturable absorber to achieve passive mode-locking in an erbium-doped fiber laser. The output consists of a very regular train of pulses. Autocorrelations show that the pulses consist of noise bursts due to incomplete mode-locking.
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页码:1438 / 1442
页数:5
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