標題: 110 GHz hybrid mode-locked fiber laser with enhanced extinction ratio based on nonlinear silicon-on-insulator micro-ring-resonator (SOI MRR)
作者: Liu, Yang
Hsu, Yung
Chow, Chi-Wai
Yang, Ling-Gang
Yeh, Chien-Hung
Lai, Yin-Chieh
Tsang, Hon-Ki
光電工程學系
Department of Photonics
關鍵字: fiber lasers;fiber optics;optical communication
公開日期: Mar-2016
摘要: We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new 110 GHz high-repetition-rate hybrid mode-locked fiber laser using a silicon-on-insulator microring-resonator (SOI MRR) acting as the optical nonlinear element and optical comb filter simultaneously. By incorporating a phase modulator (PM) that is electrically driven at a fraction of the harmonic frequency, an enhanced extinction ratio (ER) of the optical pulses can be produced. The ER of the optical pulse train increases from 3 dB to 10 dB. As the PM is only electrically driven by the signal at a fraction of the harmonic frequency, in this case 22 GHz (110 GHz/5 GHz), a low bandwidth PM and driving circuit can be used. The mode-locked pulse width and the 3 dB spectral bandwidth of the proposed mode-locked fiber laser are measured, showing that the optical pulses are nearly transform limited. Moreover, stability evaluation for an hour is performed, showing that the proposed laser can achieve stable mode-locking without the need for optical feedback or any other stabilization mechanism.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1612-2011/13/3/035101
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/134069
ISSN: 1612-2011
DOI: 10.1088/1612-2011/13/3/035101
期刊: LASER PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume: 13
Issue: 3
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