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Triggering of different pulsed regimes in fiber cavity laser by a waveguide electro-optic switch. / Nyushkov, Boris; Ivanenko, Aleksey; Smirnov, Sergey et al.

In: Optics Express, Vol. 28, No. 10, 11.05.2020, p. 14922-14932.

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title = "Triggering of different pulsed regimes in fiber cavity laser by a waveguide electro-optic switch",
abstract = "A novel practical method for electronic triggering of essentially different pulsed regimes in fiber cavity lasers is introduced. The method relies on electronic control of complementary transmission characteristics of a fiber-coupled LiNbO3 waveguide electro-optic switch (WEOS) which plays the role of the variable output coupler in a fiber cavity. The method was studied using a testbed laser configuration comprised of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and an all-fiber cavity. Modulation of the WEOS-based output coupling in the fast gain recovery configuration allowed not only high-quality mode locking and harmonic mode-locking at certain pulse repetition rates determined by the cavity round trip time, but it also allowed nanosecond pulsed output of the same quality to be yielded by cavity dumping at widely and continuously tunable repetition rate (ranging from kHz to MHz). Thus, WEOS-based electronically variable output coupling allows uniquely high flexibility for lasing regimes and characteristics within a single all-fiber cavity configuration.",
keywords = "SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER, SUPERMODE NOISE, GAIN, GENERATION, EFFICIENCY",
author = "Boris Nyushkov and Aleksey Ivanenko and Sergey Smirnov and Olga Shtyrina and Sergey Kobtsev",
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AU - Smirnov, Sergey

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AU - Kobtsev, Sergey

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N2 - A novel practical method for electronic triggering of essentially different pulsed regimes in fiber cavity lasers is introduced. The method relies on electronic control of complementary transmission characteristics of a fiber-coupled LiNbO3 waveguide electro-optic switch (WEOS) which plays the role of the variable output coupler in a fiber cavity. The method was studied using a testbed laser configuration comprised of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and an all-fiber cavity. Modulation of the WEOS-based output coupling in the fast gain recovery configuration allowed not only high-quality mode locking and harmonic mode-locking at certain pulse repetition rates determined by the cavity round trip time, but it also allowed nanosecond pulsed output of the same quality to be yielded by cavity dumping at widely and continuously tunable repetition rate (ranging from kHz to MHz). Thus, WEOS-based electronically variable output coupling allows uniquely high flexibility for lasing regimes and characteristics within a single all-fiber cavity configuration.

AB - A novel practical method for electronic triggering of essentially different pulsed regimes in fiber cavity lasers is introduced. The method relies on electronic control of complementary transmission characteristics of a fiber-coupled LiNbO3 waveguide electro-optic switch (WEOS) which plays the role of the variable output coupler in a fiber cavity. The method was studied using a testbed laser configuration comprised of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and an all-fiber cavity. Modulation of the WEOS-based output coupling in the fast gain recovery configuration allowed not only high-quality mode locking and harmonic mode-locking at certain pulse repetition rates determined by the cavity round trip time, but it also allowed nanosecond pulsed output of the same quality to be yielded by cavity dumping at widely and continuously tunable repetition rate (ranging from kHz to MHz). Thus, WEOS-based electronically variable output coupling allows uniquely high flexibility for lasing regimes and characteristics within a single all-fiber cavity configuration.

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