Short cavity erbium/ytterbium fiber lasers mode-locked with a saturable Bragg reflector

被引:81
作者
Collings, BC [1 ]
Bergman, K
Cundiff, ST
Tsuda, S
Kutz, JN
Cunningham, JE
Jan, WY
Koch, M
Knox, WH
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Program Appl & Computat Math, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[2] AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technol, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA
[3] Univ Munich, Dept Phys, Munich, Germany
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
mode-locked lasers; optical fiber communication; optical fiber lasers; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; quantum-well devices; rare-earth materials/devices; ultrafast optics;
D O I
10.1109/2944.649542
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
We present short cavity erbium/ytterbium fiber lasers that are passively mode-locked with a saturable Bragg reflector, The lasers produce sub-500-fs pulses at fundamental cavity repetition rates as high as 300 MHz, Stable passive harmonic operation increases the repetition rate to 2.0 GHz, The mode-locking mechanism in both the normal and anomalous group velocity dispersion regimes is investigated using complete analytical and numerical models and direct comparison with the experimental results, A simple technique for accurately measuring the total cavity dispersion is presented.
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页码:1065 / 1075
页数:11
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