Open AccessWaveguide Array Fiber Laser
Author(s) -
Qing Chao,
Darren D. Hudson,
J. Nathan Kutz,
S. T. Cundiff
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2012.2209411
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
A waveguide array fiber laser is demonstrated. An AlGaAs waveguide array is used as a saturable absorber to achieve passive mode-locking in an erbium-doped fiber laser. The output consists of a very regular train of pulses. Autocorrelations show that the pulses consist of noise bursts due to incomplete mode-locking.