Harmonic mode locking by synchronous optical pumping of a saturable absorber with the residual pump

被引：7

作者：

Guina, M ^{[1
]}

Okhotnikov, OG ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Tampere Univ Technol, Optoelect Res Ctr, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2003年 / 28卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.28.000358

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

An actively mode-locked fiber laser is demonstrated, for the first time to our knowledge, by modulation of a saturable-absorber mirror with the light used simultaneously for pumping the gain fiber. Stabilization of a harmonically passive mode-locked fiber laser that generates soliton pulses of 550-fs duration is obtained with this technique. The results indicate a reduction of supermode suppression by more than 55 dB. The timing jitter is improved by 9 dB. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：358 / 360

页数：3

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