Performance characterization of a harmonically mode-locked erbium fiber ring laser

Solitonlike pulses in an actively mode-locked fiber laser

“…Mode-locked fiber lasers have shown to be the most attractive inexpensive all optical light sources to generate ultrashort pulses [1]- [3]. Actively harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers are capable of producing transform-limited narrow Gaussian pulses with adjustable multi-GHz bit rates and variable pulsewidths in the picosecond range.…”

Phase noise characterization of a harmonically mode-locked erbium doped fiber ring laser

“…As can be seen in Fig. 3, no noise spikes were observed in the rf spectrum indicating stable operation of the mode-locked EDFL [6]. mode-locked EDFL has been reported in [6].…”

“…3, no noise spikes were observed in the rf spectrum indicating stable operation of the mode-locked EDFL [6]. mode-locked EDFL has been reported in [6]. However an active stabilization technique was implemented in [6], namely the insertion of a Fabry-Perot (FP) etalon with free spectral range equal to the pulse repetition frequency.…”

“…mode-locked EDFL has been reported in [6]. However an active stabilization technique was implemented in [6], namely the insertion of a Fabry-Perot (FP) etalon with free spectral range equal to the pulse repetition frequency. This method suppresses unwanted cavity resonances from lasing [9] while a feedback circuit connected to the FP filter provides active stabilization of the ring length.…”

“…The performance of a harmonically mode-locked EDFL with regards to optical pulse width, time-bandwidth product and repetition rate has been characterized previously [6]. In this paper we investigate the harmonically mode-locked EDFL as a source of microwave and millimeter-wave signals and present the noise characteristics of such a device.…”