Sideband-controllable soliton pulse with bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
A sideband-controllable soliton mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser is successfully demonstrated utilizing the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. The sidebands can be produced or suppressed by performing simple polarization light tuning with a polarization controller. It is believed that the elimination of the sidebands is due to the dispersive waves that are filtered out by the polarization-dependent isolator in the resonator. With the elimination of the Kelly sidebands, the obtained 3 dB bandwidth is 10.6 nm and the attainable pulse duration is 0.86 ps. In this experiment, it is proven that the existence of Kelly sidebands limits the attainable pulse duration.
Keywords
3 dB bandwidth, Bismuth based erbium doped fiber, Dispersive waves, Erbium doped fiber laser, Kelly sidebands, Nonlinear polarization rotation, Polarization controllers, Pulse durations
Divisions
fac_eng
Publication Title
Chinese Optics Letters
Volume
13
Issue
11
Publisher
Optical Society of America