Carruthers, Thomas F.Duling, Irl N.Horowitz, MosheMenyuk, Curtis2025-06-052025-06-052000-02-01Carruthers, 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.https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000153http://hdl.handle.net/11603/38768Harmonically 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.3 pagesen-USThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Public Domainhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Mode-locked fiber lasersRing lasersBandpass filtersPicosecond pulsesUMBC Optical Fiber Communications LaboratoryFiber lasersPhase noiseText