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Actively mode-locked multiwavelength fibre ring laser incorporating a lyot filter, hybrid gain medium and birefringence compensated LiNbO3 modulator

O'Riordan, Colm and Connelly, Michael J. and Evans, Ivan and Anandarajah, Prince M. and Maher, Robert D. and Barry, Liam P. (2007) Actively mode-locked multiwavelength fibre ring laser incorporating a lyot filter, hybrid gain medium and birefringence compensated LiNbO3 modulator. In: ICTON 2007 - 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 1-5 July 2007, Rome, Italy.

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Abstract

A lyot filter based actively mode-locked multiwavelength fibre ring laser with a hybrid gain medium, consisting of an SOA and EDFA, is presented. Simultaneous mode-locking of up to 8 wavelength channels at 10 GHz is realised using a LiNbO3 based Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator. A wavelength channel spacing of 100 GHz is obtained via appropriate tuning of the Lyot filter length. The effect of modulator birefringence on the performance of the laser spectrum is investigated and a simple method to increase spectral stability is proposed and demonstrated.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:	Conference
Refereed:	Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:	multiwavelength fibre ring laser; mode-locking; Lyot filter; hybrid gain medium; birefringence;
Subjects:	Engineering > Optical communication Physical Sciences > Lasers
DCU Faculties and Centres:	DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering Research Initiatives and Centres > Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE)
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296391
Copyright Information:	©2007 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
ID Code:	2281
Deposited On:	19 Jan 2009 11:35 by DORAS Administrator. Last Modified 05 Mar 2009 14:38

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