ENVIRONMENTALLY STABLE KERR-TYPE MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM FIBER LASER PRODUCING 360-FS PULSES

Authors
FERMANN ME YANG LM STOCK ML ANDREJCO MJ
Citation
Me. Fermann et al., ENVIRONMENTALLY STABLE KERR-TYPE MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM FIBER LASER PRODUCING 360-FS PULSES, Optics letters, 19(1), 1994, pp. 43-45
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
19
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
43 - 45
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1994)19:1<43:ESKMEF>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We demonstrate an environmentally stable Kerr-type mode-locked erbium fiber laser producing 360-fs near-bandwidth-limited pulses. Environmen tally stable operation is possible in the presence of nonpolarization- maintaining fiber components provided that their overall length is sho rt compared with the length of the polarization-maintaining fiber comp onents. The pulses are generated at a stable repetition rate of 27 MHz and have an energy content of 60 pJ.