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

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 1997年 / 3卷 / 04期

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.

引用

页码：1065 / 1075

页数：11

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