40-80-160 GHz tunable mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser incorporating a nonlinear optical loop mirror

doi:10.1364/OE.18.018113

40-80-160 GHz tunable mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser incorporating a nonlinear optical loop mirror

Tommy Cai and Lawrence R. Chen »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 17, pp. 18113-18118 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.018113

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Abstract

We demonstrate a tunable mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser incorporating a nonlinear optical loop mirror and synchronized to an external optical signal at 40 GHz, 80 GHz, and 160 GHz. The laser generates sech² pulses as short as 2.0 ps, 1.7 ps, and 1.3 ps at 40 GHz, 80 GHz, and 160 GHz, respectively, and is tunable within the C-band. The maximum root-mean-square timing jitter of the laser is 580 fs at 40 GHz and 80 GHz.

OCIS Codes
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics

ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: April 7, 2010
Revised Manuscript: May 17, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: August 6, 2010
Published: August 9, 2010

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Tommy Cai and Lawrence R. Chen, "40-80-160 GHz tunable mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser incorporating a nonlinear optical loop mirror," Opt. Express 18, 18113-18118 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-17-18113

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Y. Shiquan and B. Xiaoyi, “Repetition-rate-multiplication in actively mode-locking fiber laser by using phase modulated fiber loop mirror,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 41(10), 1285–1292 (2005). [CrossRef]
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T. Cai, L. R. Chen, and M. Rochette, “Tunable 40 GHz mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser using a nonlinear optical loop mirror,” in LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE, 2009), 783–784.
K. J. Blow, N. J. Doran, and B. P. Nelson, “Demonstration of the nonlinear fibre loop mirror as an ultrafast all-optical demultiplexer,” Electron. Lett. 26(14), 962–964 (1990). [CrossRef]

Andrekson, P. A.
Avramopoulos, H.
Bakhshi, B.
Bigo, S.
Bintjas, C.
Blow, K. J.
Desurvire, E.
Dong, H.
Doran, N. J.
Dutta, N. K.
Guekos, G.
Lee, C. C.
Lee, K. L.
Lu, C.
Lui, L. F. K.
Nakazawa, M.
Nelson, B. P.
Occhi, L.
Paschotta, R.
Pleros, N.
Ponomarev, E. A.
Schares, L.
Shiquan, Y.
Shu, C.
Sun, H.
Tam, H. Y.
Tang, W. W.
Vlachos, K.
Wai, P. K. A.
Xiaoyi, B.
Xu, L.
Yoshida, E.

Electron. Lett.

B. Bakhshi and P. A. Andrekson, “40 GHz actively modelocked polarisation maintaining erbium fibre ring laser,” Electron. Lett. 36(5), 411–413 (2000). [CrossRef]
E. Yoshida and M. Nakazawa, “80~200 GHz erbium doped fibre laser using a rational harmonic mode-locking technique,” Electron. Lett. 32(15), 1370–1372 (1996). [CrossRef]
S. Bigo and E. Desurvire, “20 GHz all-optical clock recovery based on fibre laser mode-locking with fibre nonlinear loop mirror as variable intensity/phase modulator,” Electron. Lett. 31(21), 1855–1857 (1995). [CrossRef]
K. J. Blow, N. J. Doran, and B. P. Nelson, “Demonstration of the nonlinear fibre loop mirror as an ultrafast all-optical demultiplexer,” Electron. Lett. 26(14), 962–964 (1990). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

Y. Shiquan and B. Xiaoyi, “Repetition-rate-multiplication in actively mode-locking fiber laser by using phase modulated fiber loop mirror,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 41(10), 1285–1292 (2005). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

K. Vlachos, C. Bintjas, N. Pleros, and H. Avramopoulos, “Ultrafast semiconductor-based fiber laser sources,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 10(1), 147–154 (2004). [CrossRef]

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

L. F. K. Lui, L. Xu, C. C. Lee, P. K. A. Wai, H. Y. Tam, and C. Lu, “All-optical clock recovery using erbium-doped fiber laser incorporating an electroabsorption modulator and a linear optical amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 19(10), 720–722 (2007). [CrossRef]
W. W. Tang, C. Shu, and K. L. Lee, “Rational harmonic mode locking of an optically triggered fiber laser incorporating a nonlinear optical loop modulator,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 13(1), 16–18 (2001). [CrossRef]
H. Sun, H. Dong, and N. K. Dutta, “Mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser using intracavity polarization-maintaining loop mirror,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 18(12), 1311–1313 (2006). [CrossRef]
Y. Shiquan, E. A. Ponomarev, and B. Xiaoyi, “80-GHz pulse generation from a repetition-rate-doubled FM mode-locking fiber laser,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 17(2), 300–302 (2005). [CrossRef]
M. Nakazawa and E. Yoshida, “A 40-GHz 850-fs regeneratively FM mode-locked polarization-maintaining erbium fiber ring laser,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 12(12), 1613–1615 (2000). [CrossRef]
L. Schares, L. Occhi, and G. Guekos, “80-160-GHz mode-locked fiber ring laser synchronized to external optical pulse stream,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 15(10), 1348–1350 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Lightwave Technol.

L. Schares, R. Paschotta, L. Occhi, and G. Guekos, “40-GHz mode-locked fiber-ring laser using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with integrated SOAs,” J. Lightwave Technol. 22(3), 859–873 (2004). [CrossRef]

Other

F. Jiaojiao, G. Ying, and G. Shiming, “Pulse-amplitude equalization of a rational harmonic mode-locked fiber laser through low-order harmonic suppression,” in Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on, 2009), 1–2.
T. Cai, L. R. Chen, and M. Rochette, “Tunable 40 GHz mode-locked semiconductor fiber laser using a nonlinear optical loop mirror,” in LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE, 2009), 783–784.

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