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17 May 2001 Stable high-repetition-rate pulses from a fiber laser
Niloy Choudhury, Anguel N. Nikolov, Niloy K. Dutta
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Abstract
We report on the generation of a 100 GHz train of pulses from an Er-doped fiber laser, by using rational harmonic active mode-locking. The pulse width is approximately 4 ps. The supermode noise in the spectrum is reduced significantly with a semiconductor optical amplifier in the cavity.
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Niloy Choudhury, Anguel N. Nikolov, and Niloy K. Dutta "Stable high-repetition-rate pulses from a fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 4285, Testing, Reliability, and Applications of Optoelectronic Devices, (17 May 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.426892
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KEYWORDS
Fiber lasers

Mode locking

Modulation

Picosecond phenomena

Optical amplifiers

Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Erbium

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