Onset of self-pulsing behavior in an Er-doped fiber laser

Raul Rangel-Rojo; Mehrdad Mohebi; Diana Tentori-Santa-Cruz

doi:10.1117/12.231092

5 February 1996 Onset of self-pulsing behavior in an Er-doped fiber laser

Raul Rangel-Rojo, Mehrdad Mohebi, Diana Tentori-Santa-Cruz

Proceedings Volume 2730, Second Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.231092
Event: Second Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics, 1995, Guanajuato, Mexico

Abstract

We report the observation of self-pulsing behavior in a linear cavity Er-doped fiber laser pumped by a 980 nm laser diode. Stable self-pulsing is observed for both continuous-wave and low frequency chopped pumping. By measuring the time evolution of the transmitted pump light, we were able to observe a long build-up time (around 5 ms) for lasing action to take place. While the self-pulsing behavior of similar lasers has been recently reported, the long laser build up times have not been reported before. A numerical model for the time and space dependance of the excited state populations of the Er-ions reproduces some of the observed features.

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Raul Rangel-Rojo, Mehrdad Mohebi, and Diana Tentori-Santa-Cruz "Onset of self-pulsing behavior in an Er-doped fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 2730, Second Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics, (5 February 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.231092

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