EFFECTS OF YB-ER-CODOPING ON SUPPRESSING SELF-PULSING IN ER-DOPED FIBER LASERS

Authors
DING M CHEO PK
Citation
M. Ding et Pk. Cheo, EFFECTS OF YB-ER-CODOPING ON SUPPRESSING SELF-PULSING IN ER-DOPED FIBER LASERS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(3), 1997, pp. 324-326
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
324 - 326
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:3<324:EOYOSS>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The effective pump rate for Er-doped fibers by using Mb codoping is an alyzed. We show that the level of the pump power required to suppress the ion-pair induced self-pulsing in Er-doped fiber lasers can be sign ificantly decreased by using Yb:Er-codoped fibers due to the increased effective pump rate. Our results show the potentiality of developing stable single-frequency or high-repetition-rate mode-locked fiber lase rs by using high-gain Yb:Er-codoped fibers with laser diodes as pump s ources.