Suppression of beating noise of narrow-linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers by use of a semiconductor optical amplifier.

نویسندگان

  • Lei Xu
  • Ivan Glesk
  • Darren Rand
  • Varghese Baby
  • Paul R Prucnal
چکیده

Beating noise in narrow-linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers puts severe limitations on applications of the lasers. We demonstrate the suppression of beating noise in fiber ring lasers by using a semiconductor optical amplifier in the laser cavity, which acts as a high-pass filter. Two different ring structures are presented as examples to demonstrate this beating noise suppression.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Optics letters

دوره 28 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003