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Received 25/12/2012, Published

Femtosecond optical pulses are generated by an actively modelocked fibre ring laser. The fibre ring cavity includes a dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder optical intensity modulator and an erbium-doped fibre amplifier. To generate femtosecond pulses, fast impulse modulation is employed. The modelocking generates femtosecond pulses with a pulse-width of about 500 fs.

Inspec keywords: laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; erbium; optical pulse generation; ring lasers

Other keywords: femtosecond optical pulses; fast impulse modulation; erbium-doped fibre amplifier; actively modelocked fibre ring laser; fibre ring cavity; pulse-width; dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder optical intensity modulator; femtosecond pulse generation

Subjects: Laser resonators and cavities; Fibre lasers and amplifiers; Fibre lasers and amplifiers; Laser resonators and cavities; Design of specific laser systems; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Ultrafast optical techniques; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning

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