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1 MHz Akinetic Dispersive Ring Cavity Swept Source at 850 nm

Toadere, Florin, Stancu, Radu.-F., Poon, Wallace, Schultz, David, Podoleanu, Adrian G.H. (2017) 1 MHz Akinetic Dispersive Ring Cavity Swept Source at 850 nm. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 29 (11). pp. 933-936. ISSN 1041-1135. E-ISSN 1941-0174. (doi:10.1109/LPT.2017.2695083) (KAR id:61935)

Abstract

A fast dual mode-locked akinetic optical swept source at 850 nm central wavelength is presented using a dispersive cavity. We demonstrate that single mode fiber can be successfully used as dispersive element to induce mode locking. A first locking condition is imposed by driving the optical gain at a high frequency, to induce mode locking, while a second locking condition involves sweeping at a rate close to resonance value. In this regime, using the same fiber length in the loop, sweeping rates of 0.5 MHz and 1 MHz are demonstrated with proportional reduction in the tuning bandwidth. The axial range of the swept source was evaluated by scanning through the channeled spectrum of a Michelson interferometer.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/LPT.2017.2695083
Uncontrolled keywords: Semiconductor optical amplifier, laser mode locking, ring laser, optical fiber dispersion, radio frequency.
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Adrian Podoleanu
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2017 08:08 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 19:03 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/61935 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Toadere, Florin.

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Podoleanu, Adrian G.H..

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