We propose and demonstrate a passively mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser based on symmetrical nonlinear optical loop mirror. The nonlinear optical loop mirror with intensity-depended transmission can act as an equivalent saturable absorber, which results in passively mode-locking of fiber laser.
Mode-locked fiber laser based on an attenuation-imbalanced nonlinear optical loop mirror
โ Scribed by N.H. Seong; Dug Y. Kim; Suhas Poyyil Veetil
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 478 KB
- Volume
- 280
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0030-4018
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โฆ Synopsis
We propose a mode-locked figure-eight fiber laser by utilizing an attenuation-imbalanced nonlinear optical loop mirror (AI-NOLM) for the first time. Stable self-starting passively mode-locked pulses as short as 296 fs are obtained. We have also confirmed that the pulse width of the laser can be varied by changing the amount of attenuation in the AI-NOLM.
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