Semiconductor optical amplifier based high duty-cycle, self-starting figure-eight 1.7 GHz laser source.
The operation of a self-starting, passively harmonic modelocked, figure-eight laser is experimentally demonstrated. A stable pulse train with near half duty-cycle is produced at a repetition rate of 1.7 GHz at 1536 nm wavelength without any starting/triggering mechanism and stays modelocked as long as it is being pumped.
Optical Fibre Technology Centre, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. s.min@usyd.edu.au
Seong-sik
SS
Min
Yucheng
Y
Zhao
Simon
S
Fleming
D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity