Chinese Optics Letters, 2003, 1 (3): 03128, Published Online: Jun. 6, 2006
Figure-eight actively-passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser
140.4050 mode-locked lasers 140.3510 lasers fiber 190.3270 Kerr effect 060.2380 fiber optics sources and detectors
Abstract
The advantages of using nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) to compress pulse with slight amplitude fluctuation and reflected energy loss are analyzed in theory. Experimentally the NOLM is placed in an actively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser to form a figure-eight actively and passively modelocked fiber laser. 12 ps mode-locked pulses centered at 1.543 μm were obtained with the modulation frequency of 2.498748700 GHz. 3.715 mW output power is achieved with 50 mW pump power.
Zhaoying Wang, Zhenhong Yu, Chunfeng Ge, Ruifeng Zhang, Dongfang Jia, Shichen Li. Figure-eight actively-passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2003, 1(3): 03128.