Soliton fiber ring laser

Chen, C. J.; Wai, P.K.A.; Menyuk, Curtis R.

doi:10.1364/ol.17.000417

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“…Mode-locking has been achieved using this technique in linear cavities with Nd +3 -doped fiber [27] and Er +3 -doped fiber [37], although these lasers required active modulators for pulse initiation. Simulations of a soliton fiber ring laser showed that a saturable absorber (nonlinear polarization rotation) and frequency limiter were required for the ring laser to self-start [38]. A self-starting ring cavity with low-birefringence fiber was then demonstrated at 1.55 µm, although the 1.2-ps soliton pulses were randomly spaced in bunches at the round-trip frequency [28].…”

Section: Review Of Passive Mode-locking Techniques and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

Nelson¹,

Jones²,

Tamura³

et al. 1997

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

743

385

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Abstract. This paper reviews recent progress on ultrashort pulse generation with erbium-doped fiber ring lasers. The passive mode-locking technique of polarization additive pulse mode-locking (P-APM) is used to generate stable, selfstarting, sub-500 fs pulses at the fundamental repetition rate from a unidirectional fiber ring laser operating in the soliton regime. Saturation of the APM, spectral sideband generation, and intracavity filtering are discussed. Harmonic modelocking of fiber ring lasers with soliton pulse compression is addressed, and stability regions for the solitons are mapped and compared with theoretical predictions. The stretchedpulse laser, which incorporates segments of positive-and negative-dispersion fiber into the P-APM fiber ring, generates shorter (sub-100 fs) pulses with broader bandwidths (> 65 nm) and higher pulse energies (up to 2.7 nJ). We discuss optimization of the net dispersion of the stretched-pulse laser, use of the APM rejection port as the laser output port, and frequency doubling for amplifier seed applications. We also review the analytical theory of the stretched-pulse laser as well as discuss the excellent noise characteristics of both the soliton and stretched-pulse lasers. 42.60F; 42.65; 42.80 Fiber lasers were made possible in the 1960s by the incorporation of trivalent rare-earth ions such as neodymium, erbium, and thulium into glass hosts [1]. Soon thereafter neodymium was incorporated into the cores of fiber waveguides [2,3]. Due to the high efficiency of the Nd +3 ion as a laser, early work focused on Nd +3 -doped silica fiber lasers operating at 1.06 µm [4]. Doping of silica fibers with Er +3 ions was not achieved until the 1980s [5,6]. Since that time Er +3 -doped fiber lasers have received much attention, because the lasing wavelength at 1.55 µm falls within the low-loss window of optical fibers and thus is suitable for optical fiber communications. Rare-earth ions such as Ho +3 [7,8], Tm +3 [9-11], and * Current address: Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Road, Holmdel, NJ, USA * * Current address: NTT Access Network Systems Laboratory, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-11, Japan Yb +3 [12,13] have also been used as dopants or co-dopants in silica or fluoride fibers, allowing new lasing or pumping wavelengths, and Pr +3 has been incorporated into fluoride fiber, providing emission at 1.3 µm [14,15]. PACS:Among the numerous advantages of fiber lasers are simple doping procedures, low loss, and the possibility of pumping with compact, efficient diodes. The fiber itself provides the waveguide, and the availability of various fiber components minimizes the need for bulk optics and mechanical alignment. Many different cavity configurations can be easily built with fibers and fused-fiber couplers, including linear FabryPerot, ring, and combinations of the two. Enhancement of the fiber nonlinearity due to large signal intensities and long interaction lengths is an additional advantage of fiber lasers that is particularly important for mode-locki...

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Section: Review Of Passive Mode-locking Techniques and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

Nelson¹,

Jones²,

Tamura³

et al. 1997

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

743

385

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“…Mode locking of the laser was achieved by using the effect of non-linear rotation of radiation polarisation (C.J. Chen et al, 1992;Matsas et al, 1992;Chong et al, 2008). Control over the polarisation was carried out with the help of three phase plates inserted into the laser cavity.…”

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Mode-Locked Fibre Lasers with High-Energy Pulses

Smirnov¹,

Kobtsev²,

Kukarin³

et al. 2011

Laser Systems for Applications

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“…The latter is further related to the laser gain. Chen et al have analytically derived the cavity transmission of such lasers [19]. With a fixed linear light polarization rotation bias, the actual cavity transmission is a sinusoidal function of the nonlinear light polarization rotation.…”

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Pulse-train nonuniformity in a fiber soliton ring laser mode-locked by using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique

et al. 2004

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We report on the experimental observation of periodical intensity fluctuations on the output of a fiber soliton ring laser passively mode-locked by using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. It is found that the appearance of such intensity fluctuations is independent of the orientation of the polarizer in the cavity, but closely related to the pump intensity. We have also numerically simulated the pulse dynamics of the laser. Our numerical simulations confirmed the experimental observations and showed that the soliton pulse nonuniformity is caused by the interaction between the nonlinear polarization rotation and the polarizer in the cavity.

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Soliton fiber ring laser

Cited by 171 publications

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Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

Mode-Locked Fibre Lasers with High-Energy Pulses

Pulse-train nonuniformity in a fiber soliton ring laser mode-locked by using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique

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