Soliton fiber laser with a hybrid saturable absorber
- Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ (United Kingdom)
We present an experimental study of a picosecond fiber soliton laser in which mode locking is achieved by the combined action of a multiple-quantum-well saturable absorber and a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror. In this configuration the multiple-quantum-well sample acts not only as a saturable absorber but also as a passive phase modulator, while the inclusion of a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror fixes the energy of the generated pulses. The laser stably operates at a repetition rate of 250 MHz with a timing jitter below 10 ps. {copyright} {ital 1996 Optical Society of America.}
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 459794
- Journal Information:
- Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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