Abstract

We describe a modulator-driven, erbium-fiber ring laser that produces chirp-free pulses with width adjustable over the range of 5 to 100 ps. A high-finesse Fabry–Perot étalon with a free spectral range equal to the 2.5-GHz laser repetition rate eliminates unwanted laser ring modes and stabilizes the pulse amplitude. Using this laser, we have extended the error-free distance of a series of soliton transmission experiments by 2000–3000 km over previous results with a mode-locked semiconductor laser.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

Frequency locking of an erbium-doped fiber ring laser to an external fiber Fabry–Perot resonator

Namkyoo Park, Jay W. Dawson, and Kerry J. Vahala
Opt. Lett. 18(11) 879-881 (1993)

Long-term stability of two diode-laser-pumped nonplanar ring lasers independently stabilized to two Fabry–Perot interferometers

N. M. Sampas, E. K. Gustafson, and R. L. Byer
Opt. Lett. 18(12) 947-949 (1993)

Passively mode-locked diode-pumped solid-state lasers that use an antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber

K. J. Weingarten, U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson
Opt. Lett. 18(8) 640-642 (1993)

Unidirectional ring resonators for self-starting passively mode-locked lasers

K. Tamura, J. Jacobson, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 18(3) 220-222 (1993)

Self-stabilized passive, harmonically mode-locked stretched-pulse erbium fiber ring laser

K. S. Abedin, J. T. Gopinath, L. A. Jiang, M. E. Grein, H. A. Haus, and Erich P. Ippen
Opt. Lett. 27(20) 1758-1760 (2002)