Observation of two-color pulses in a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser

Zuxing Zhang; Li Zhan; Shouyu Luo; Yuxing Xia

doi:10.1117/1.2360154

1 October 2006 Observation of two-color pulses in a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser

Zuxing Zhang, Li Zhan, Shouyu Luo, Yuxing Xia

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue 10, 104202 (October 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2360154

Abstract

The operation of a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser in two-color pulse mode has been experimentally observed. The experiments demonstrate that the wavelengths of two-color pulses can be switched among three wavelength bands. Through carefully controlling the polarization states of the laser cavity, various modulation patterns of the two-color pulses are obtained, which are due to the interaction of two different-wavelength pulses. Single- and three-color pulses are also observed. Multiwavelength oscillation is ascribed to the wavelength-dependent transmission induced by birefringence, and can synchronously mode-lock through nonlinear polarization rotation.

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Zuxing Zhang, Li Zhan, Shouyu Luo, and Yuxing Xia "Observation of two-color pulses in a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser," Optical Engineering 45(10), 104202 (1 October 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2360154

Published: 1 October 2006

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