Dispersion management in a harmonically mode-locked fiber soliton laser

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433

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2000-02-01

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Carruthers, Thomas F., Irl N. Duling, Moshe Horowitz, and Curtis R. Menyuk. “Dispersion Management in a Harmonically Mode-Locked Fiber Soliton Laser.” Optics Letters 25, no. 3 (February 1, 2000): 153–55. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000153.

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Mode-locked fiber lasers
Ring lasers
Bandpass filters
Picosecond pulses
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
Fiber lasers
Phase noise

Abstract

Harmonically mode-locked Er-fiber soliton lasers have become a reliable source of high-repetition-rate picosecond pulses in high-speed communications and photonic analog-to-digital conversion systems because of their low-noise, 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 uninterrupted single-pulse production is attained and dramatically decreases the effects of amplified spontaneous emission on the phase noise of the laser.