Summary
Optoelectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication
2007
Session Number:13C4
Session:
Number:13C4-4
Pulse dropout and subharmonic locking in an active mode-locked birefringent fiber laser
Huy Quoc Lam, P. Shum, Le Nguyen Binh, Y.D. Gong, Ming Tang, Songnian Fu,
pp.636-637
Publication Date:2007/7/9
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
We report the phenomenon of subharmonic locking of an active mode-locked birefringence fiber laser. The beating between two sets of modes in the birefringent cavity causes pulse dropping and forms the pulse pattern of 0101 or 00010001, which results in the reduction of pulse repetition rate to a half or a quarter of the modulation frequency. This phenomenon demonstrates the dynamic evolutionary property of the active mode- locked fiber laser.