Self-starting, passively mode-locked Fabry-Perot fiber soliton laser using nonlinear polarization evolution

Journal Article · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/68.215258· OSTI ID:6436569

Matsas, V J; Loh, W H; Richardson, D J ^[1]

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1. Southampton Univ. (United Kingdom)

During the last three years the potential of mode-locked rare-earth-doped fiber lasers for ultrashort pulse generation has been explored and both passive and active mode-locking schemes have been demonstrated. Three cavity configurations are most commonly used: Fabry-Perot, ring, and those which exploit the nonlinear properties of the fiber Sagnac loop mirror. Systems which use nonlinear polarization evolution (NLPE) in conjunction with an intracavity polarizer to provide the passive mode-locking mechanism have so far been demonstrated in ring and Fabry-Perot configurations, the latter of which employed an intracavity bulk polarizer and modulator. Here, the authors demonstrate pure self-starting mode-locked operation in a fiber Fabry-Perot cavity. The laser produces 1.6 ps transform-limited soliton pulses by means of nonlinear polarization evolution in conjunction with an intracavity fiber polarizer.

• OSTI ID: 6436569
• Journal Information: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Vol. 5:5; ISSN 1041-1135; ISSN IPTLEL
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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