Dispersion Management in a Harmonically Mode-Locked Fiber Soliton Laser

Abstract

Harmonically 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 31, 1999
Accession Number
ADA459963

Entities

People

  • Curtis R. Menyuk
  • Irl N. Duling Iii
  • Moshe Horowitz
  • Thomas F. Carruthers

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Amplitude
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Amplitude Modulators
  • Bandwidth
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Science
  • Dispersions
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Laser Resonators
  • Lasers
  • Military Research
  • Modulation
  • Repetition Rate
  • Ring Lasers
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy