Performance comparison of mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with nonlinear polarization rotation and saturable absorber approaches

• Main Authors: Ismail, M.A., Tan, S.J., Shahabuddin, N.S., Harun, Sulaiman Wadi, Arof, Hamzah, Ahmad, Harith
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2012
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/10380/1/Performance_Comparison_of_Mode-Locked_Erbium-Doped_Fiber_Laser_with.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/10380/

A mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) is demonstrated using a highly concentrated erbium-doped fiber (EDF) as the gain medium in a ring configuration with and without a saturable absorber (SA). Without the SA, the proposed laser generates soliton pulses with a repetition rate of 12MHz, puls...