Wavelength-tunable 40-GHz picosecond harmonically mode-locked fiber laser source |
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| Authors: | J.M. Roth T.G. Ulmer N.W. Spellmeyer S. Constantine M.E. Grein |
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| Affiliation: | Opt. Commun. Technol. Group, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA; |
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| Abstract: | We demonstrate a novel 40-GHz mode-locked fiber laser that utilizes a single active device to provide both gain and mode-locking. The laser produces pulses as short as 2.2 ps, is tunable over a 27-nm band centered at 1553 nm, and exhibits long-term stability without cavity-length feedback control. The pulse train at 1556 nm was used in a 40-Gb/s transmission experiment over 45 km with a low 0.4-dB power penalty. |
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