A novel method is reported for stabilising an actively modelocked Er-doped fibre laser through minimisation of the average inter-pulse noise power. Long term stable operation of a harmonically actively modelocked fibre σ-laser is demonstrated using the proposed method.
Inspec keywords: laser mode locking; laser frequency stability; erbium; fibre lasers; laser noise
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Subjects: Fibre lasers and amplifiers; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Fibre lasers and amplifiers; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Design of specific laser systems
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