A Q-switched, mode-locked fiber laser employing subharmonic cavity modulation

doi:10.1364/OE.19.026627

A Q-switched, mode-locked fiber laser employing subharmonic cavity modulation

You Min Chang, Junsu Lee, and Ju Han Lee »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 27, pp. 26627-26633 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.026627

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Abstract

We present a new and simple approach for the generation of Q-switched, mode-locked pulses from a laser cavity. The approach is based on cavity loss modulation that employs a subharmonic frequency of the fundamental intermode frequency spacing. A range of experiments have been carried out using an erbium-doped fiber-based ring cavity laser in order to verify that this simple approach can readily produce high quality Q-switched, mode-locked pulses. An active tuning of the Q-switched envelope repetition rate is also shown to be easily achievable by adjusting the order of the applied subharmonic frequency.

OCIS Codes
(140.3540) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Q-switched
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(060.3510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Lasers, fiber

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: October 31, 2011
Revised Manuscript: November 29, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: November 30, 2011
Published: December 14, 2011

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You Min Chang, Junsu Lee, and Ju Han Lee, "A Q-switched, mode-locked fiber laser employing subharmonic cavity modulation," Opt. Express 19, 26627-26633 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-27-26627

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