116-fs soliton source based on an Er-Yb codoped waveguide amplifier

Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
1998
Authors
Jones,D. J
Namiki, S
Barbier, D
Ippen, EP
Haus, HA
Name of Publication
Ieee Photonics Technology Letters
Volume
10
Pagination
666 - 668
Issue
5
Date Published
1998/05//
ISBN Number
1041-1135
Keywords
erbium materials/devices, fiber ring laser, optical fiber lasers, optical planar waveguides, optical pulse generation, Ultrafast optics, wave-guide amplifier
Abstract

A passively mode-locked soliton ring fiber laser is investigated that utilizes a 4.5-cm erbium-ytterbium (Er-Yb) codoped waveguide amplifier as the gain element. The resulting short cavity (1.3 m of fiber) eliminates multipulsing behavior and reduces the effects of resonant sidebands, enabling generation of 116-fs solitons with a pulse energy of 160 pJ at a fundamental repetition rate of 130 MHz.


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