Abstract
Modelocked Erbium doped fiber ring lasers have been developed in many laboratories and commercial models are already available. The most common type is based on the soliton concept, a soliton-like pulse circulates around the ring. Modelocking is provided by a saturable absorber (e.g. quantum well)[1] or by Polarization-Additive-Pulse-Modelocking(P-APM)[2]. Solitons can be driven unstable by periodic disturbance of gain and loss. For this reason, soliton fiber ring lasers tend to generate low average power.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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