Pulses with adjustable characteristics from a figure-eight fiber laser

O. Pottiez; R. Grajales-Coutiño; B. Ibarra-Escamilla; E. A. Kuzin; J. C. Hernandez-Garcia; A. Gonzalez-Garcia

doi:10.1117/12.868541

14 October 2010 Pulses with adjustable characteristics from a figure-eight fiber laser

O. Pottiez, R. Grajales-Coutiño, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, E. A. Kuzin, J. C. Hernandez-Garcia, A. Gonzalez-Garcia

Proceedings Volume 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2); 783922 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868541
Event: Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-10), 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

In this work we study experimentally a novel passively mode-locked erbium-doped figure-eight fiber laser based on a polarization-imbalanced Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror (NOLM). The NOLM operation strongly depends on the polarization state at its input. In this experiment, the input polarization state is set to linear, and its orientation is controlled through a half-wave retarder plate. The variation of the input polarization angle allows adjusting the NOLM switching power over a wide range. In this work we show experimentally that this adjustment makes it possible to tune the spectral bandwidth and the temporal properties of the generated pulses over a wide range.

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O. Pottiez, R. Grajales-Coutiño, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, E. A. Kuzin, J. C. Hernandez-Garcia, and A. Gonzalez-Garcia "Pulses with adjustable characteristics from a figure-eight fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2), 783922 (14 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868541

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