Waveguide Array Fiber Laser

Authors :: Qing Chao
Darren D. Hudson
Steven T. Cundiff
J. Nathan Kutz
Source :: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 4, Iss 5, Pp 1438-1442 (2012)
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012.
Abstract: 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.

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