Characterization of nonlinear switching in a figure-of-eight fiber laser using frequency-resolved optical gating

被引:7
作者
Bollond, PG [1 ]
Barry, LP [1 ]
Dudley, JM [1 ]
Leonhardt, R [1 ]
Harvey, JD [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Auckland, Dept Phys, Auckland, New Zealand
关键词
optical fiber lasers; optical fiber switches; optical pulse generation; optical pulse measurements; ultrafast optics;
D O I
10.1109/68.661404
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
The measurement technique of-frequency-resolved optical gating is applied to determine the nonlinear switching. characteristics of a passively modelocked figure-of-eight erbium-doped fiber laser, By completely characterizing the intensity and phase of the laser output pulses, the intracavity fields in the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror of the laser cavity are determined by numerical propagation using the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, Excellent switching of 95% can be achieved as a result of uniform phase characteristics developed by pulses propagating in the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror.
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页码:343 / 345
页数:3
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