Dispersion management in a harmonically mode-locked fiber soliton laser

Citation
Tf. Carruthers et al., Dispersion management in a harmonically mode-locked fiber soliton laser, OPTICS LETT, 25(3), 2000, pp. 153-155
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
01469592 → ACNP
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
153 - 155
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(20000201)25:3<153:DMIAHM>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Harmonically mode-locked Er-fiber soliton lasers have become a reliable sou rce of high-repetition-rate picosecond pulses in high-speed communications and photonic analog-to-digital conversion systems because of their low-nois e, dropout-free operation. We have fabricated such a laser with a strongly dispersion-managed cavity and modeled its operation, and we have found that dispersion management significantly extends the power range over which uni nterrupted single-pulse production is attained and dramatically decreases t he effects of amplified spontaneous emission on the phase noise of the lase r. OCIS codes: 140.3510, 140.4050, 140.3430, 060.5530, 060.7140, 320.7090.