Generation of high-repetition-rate pulse trains in a fiber laser through a twin-core fiber

Pavel Peterka; Pavel Honzatko; Jiri Kanka; Vlastimil Matejec; Ivan Kasik

doi:10.1117/12.498360

8 July 2003 Generation of high-repetition-rate pulse trains in a fiber laser through a twin-core fiber

Pavel Peterka, Pavel Honzatko, Jiri Kanka, Vlastimil Matejec, Ivan Kasik

Proceedings Volume 5036, Photonics, Devices, and Systems II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.498360
Event: Photonics, Devices, and Systems II, 2002, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

We demonstrate the application of a twin-core fiber comb filter to the generation of high repetition rate pulse trains in fiber lasers. We have found experimentally that passive mode locking of the fiber laser can be established due to concurrent effects of a nearly periodic transmission function of the twin-core fiber filter and of the modulational instability. The period of the generated pulse train is determined by the intermodal dispersion of the twin-core fiber inserted into the fiber laser cavity. A repetition rate as high as 206 GHz was achieved. The width of the generated pulses was 2.7 ps.

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Pavel Peterka, Pavel Honzatko, Jiri Kanka, Vlastimil Matejec, and Ivan Kasik "Generation of high-repetition-rate pulse trains in a fiber laser through a twin-core fiber", Proc. SPIE 5036, Photonics, Devices, and Systems II, (8 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.498360

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