Low-timing-jitter, stretched-pulse passively mode-locked fiber laser with tunable repetition rate and high operation stability

Journal of Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Yuanshan ^a   Zhang, Jian Guo ^a,b   Chen, Guofu ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Bai, Jing ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Laser stabilization; Mode locked lasers; Pulse generation; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER MIRRORS; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL PUMPING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; TIMING CIRCUITS; TIMING JITTER;

DISPERSION-COMPENSATION FIBERS; LASER STABILIZATION; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NONLINEAR AMPLIFYING LOOP MIRRORS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATION; REPETITION-RATE OPERATION; TUNABLE OPTICAL DELAY LINE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78349288382     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/12/9/095204     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Horowitz M, Menyuk C R, Carruthers T F and Duling I N III 2000 J. Lightwave Technol. 18 1565
2. Jiang M, Ahn K H, Cao X-D, Dasika P, Liang Y, Islam M N, Evans A F, Hawk R M, Nolan D A and Weidman D L 1997 J. Lightwave Technol. 15 2020
3. Ohta H, Banjo N, Yamada N, Nogiwa S and Yanagisawa Y 2001 Electron. Lett. 37 1541
4. Jungerman R L, Lee G, Buccafusca O, Kaneko Y, Itagaki N, Shioda R, Harada A, Nihei Y and Sucha G 2002 IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 14 1148
5. Kim J, Kartner F X and Perrott M N 2004 Opt. Lett. 29 2076
6. Kim J, Ludwig F, Felber M and Kartner F X 2007 Opt. Express 15 8951
7. Duling I N III 1991 Opt. Lett. 16 539
8. Carruthers T F and Duling I N III 1996 Opt. Lett. 21 1927
9. Matsas V J, Newson T P, Richardson D J and Payne D N 1992 Electron. Lett. 28 1391
10. Tamura K, Haus H A and Ippen E P 1992 Electron. Lett. 28 2226
11. Haus H A, Tamura K, Nelson L E and Ippen E P 1995 IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 31 591
12. Haus H A, Ippen E P and Tamura K 1994 IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 30 200
13. Tamura K, Ippen E P, Haus H A and Nelson L E 1993 Opt. Lett. 18 1080
14. Ilday F O, Buckley J R, Clark W G and Wise F W 2004 Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 213902
15. Ilday F O, Buckley J R, Lim H, Wise F W and Clark W G 2003 Opt. Lett. 28 1365
16. Ilday F Ö and Wise F W 2002 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19 470
17. Tang D Y and Zhao L M 2007 Opt. Lett. 32 41
18. Yu C X, Namiki S and Haus H A 1997 IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 33 660
19. Grudinin A B and Gray S 1997 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14 144
20. Jeon M-Y, Oh W-Y, Lee H-K, Kim K-H, Shim S, Kim B Y, Lee H-W and Lee E-H 1996 Technical Digest of 1996 Optical Fiber Communications Conf. pp 2-3
21. Washburn B R, Fox R W, Newbury N R, Nicholson J W, Feder K, Westbrook P S and Jørgensen C G 2004 Opt. Express 12 4999
22. Hundertmark H, Kracht D, Engelbrecht M, Wandt D and Fallnich C 2004 Opt. Express 12 3178
23. Jones D J, Nelson L E, Haus H A and Ippen E P 1997 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 3 1076
24. Fermann M E, Haberl F, Hofer M and Hochreiter H 1990 Opt. Lett. 15 752
25. Bulushev A G, Dianov E M and Okhotnikov O G 1990 Opt. Lett. 15 968