Selfstarting passively mode-locked fibre ring soliton laser exploiting nonlinear polarisation rotation

16 July 1992

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 28 (15) , 1391-1393
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19920885

Abstract

Nonlinear birefringence effects in a fibre ring laser cavity have been exploited to produce selfstarting, passive modelocking to give 1.5ps soliton pulses.

Keywords

SOLITON PULSES
NONLINEAR POLARISATION ROTATION
NONLINEAR BIREFRINGENCE EFFECTS
FIBRE RING LASER CAVITY
FIBRE RING SOLITON LASER
1.5 PS
SELF STARTING
PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING

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