Rational Harmonic Mode-Locking of a Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator at 30 GHz

Rational Harmonic Mode-Locking of a Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator at 30 GHz

We demonstrate rational harmonic mode-locking of a fiber optical parametric oscillator (FOPO) in which the parametric gain serves as an all-optical mode-locker. A pulse train with a repetition rate from 10 to 30 GHz is generated using a 10-GHz optical clock signal. The generated pulses have a pulsew...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jia Li, Tianye Huang, Lawrence R. Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2011-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:
Fiber lasers
fiber nonlinear optics
Kerr effect
mode-locked lasers
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5763720/
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Summary:We demonstrate rational harmonic mode-locking of a fiber optical parametric oscillator (FOPO) in which the parametric gain serves as an all-optical mode-locker. A pulse train with a repetition rate from 10 to 30 GHz is generated using a 10-GHz optical clock signal. The generated pulses have a pulsewidth of ~ 9 ps, a root-mean-square (RMS) timing jitter of ~ 300 fs, and a wavelength tunable to more than 20 nm.
ISSN:1943-0655

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