SELF-STARTING LOW-NOISE FIBER SOLITON LASER

被引:5
作者
ABRAHAM, D [1 ]
NAGAR, R [1 ]
EISENSTEIN, G [1 ]
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[1] TECHNION ISRAEL INST TECHNOL,DEPT ELECT ENGN,IL-32000 HAIFA,ISRAEL
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10.1364/OL.18.001508
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report a self-starting passively mode-locked soliton source generating 1-ps-wide pulses. The laser is configured as a ring with an erbium-doped fiber gain medium, a length of conventional fiber that provides the required dispersion and Kerr nonlinearity, and an intracavity multiple-quantum-well optical amplifier that serves as a saturable absorber and pulse stabilizer. The laser exhibits low timing jitter and low amplitude noise.
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页码:1508 / 1510
页数:3
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