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Harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser with an internal Fabry-Perot stabilizer for soliton transmission.
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A modulator-driven, erbium-fiber ring laser that produces chirp-free pulses with width adjustable over the range of 5 to 100 ps that has extended the error-free distance of a series of soliton transmission experiments by 2000-3000 km over previous results with a mode-locked semiconductor laser.Abstract:
We describe a modulator-driven, erbium-fiber ring laser that produces chirp-free pulses with width adjustable over the range of 5 to 100 ps. A high-finesse Fabry-Perot etalon with a free spectral range equal to the 2.5-GHz laser repetition rate eliminates unwanted laser ring modes and stabilizes the pulse amplitude. Using this laser, we have extended the error-free distance of a series of soliton transmission experiments by 2000-3000 km over previous results with a mode-locked semiconductor laser.read more
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Mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with soliton pulse shaping
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Stabilising er fibre soliton laser with pulse phase locking
TL;DR: In this paper, a stabilisation scheme for a mode-locked erbium fiber laser which relies on locking the pulse phase with that of the drive source is reported. And the first bit error rate (BER) measurement on such a laser has been demonstrated.
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Demonstration of error-free soliton transmission over more than 15000 km at 5 Gbit/s, single-channel, and over more than 11000 km at 10 Gbit/s in two-channel WDM
TL;DR: By transmitting trains of 213 bit pseudorandom words in a recirculating loop, the authors demonstrated error-free (measured BER ≥ 10−10) soliton transmission at 5 Gbit/s, single channel, and at 10 Gbits/s in a two channel WDM, over paths as great as 15 400 km and 11 250 km, respectively.
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30 GHz picosecond pulse generation from actively mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser
Atsushi Takada,H. Miyazawa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Ti:LiNbO3 electro-optical modulator driven by a 15 GHz RF signal is used as the mode-locker for the erbium-doped fiber ring laser.