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dc.contributor.advisor | Lee, Hai-Woong | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | Kim, Byoung-Yoon | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | 이해웅 | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | 김병윤 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Oh, Wang-Yuhl | - |
dc.contributor.author | 오왕열 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-14T07:27:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-12-14T07:27:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://library.kaist.ac.kr/search/detail/view.do?bibCtrlNo=114934&flag=dissertation | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10203/47568 | - |
dc.description | 학위논문(박사) - 한국과학기술원 : 물리학과, 1997.2, [ iv, 97 p. ] | - |
dc.description.abstract | The importance of passive mode locking of the fiber laser using the nonlinear Kerr effect has been stressed in recent years. In particular, passive mode locking of the all-fiber lasers using nonlinear fiber loop mirrors, such as the nonlinear optical loop mirror(NOLM) or the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror(NALM), has been shown to have a great potential for practical applications, e.g. high speed communication and fast optical switching. In this paper, the characteristics of the NOLM, which is a key element for such passively mode-locked all-fiber lasers, were investigated. The reflectivity analysis of the NOLM by modeling the fiber loop as an elliptic retarder has given a good description about the polarization and spectral characteristics of the passively mode-locked pulses. The role that the loop birefringence plays in the passively mode-locked fiber laser system was understood through this study. A stable and easy-starting passively mode-locked fiber laser, whose cavity was formed with a NALM at one end and a Faraday rotator mirror(FRM) at the other, was demonstrated. Our theoretical analysis based on the laser eigenmode theory showed several interesting features which explained how such stable and easy-starting passive mode locking was achieved when a FRM was inserted as one of the laser cavity mirrors. Our experimental observations have confirmed that, when a FRM was used in place of an ordinary planar mirror, passive mode locking started much more easily and passively mode-locked pulses were very stable. The width of the shortest pulse that we obtained was about 442fs assuming a Gaussian envelope, and the repetition rate was 4.3MHz which was equal to the inverse of one cavity round trip time. A passively mode-locked figure-eight-laser(F8L) with a wavelength tunability and a harmonically mode-locked fiber laser with an all-fiber acousto-optic tunable filter(AOTF) were also briefly demonstrated. The tunable soliton F8L showed discrete tunability over t... | eng |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | 한국과학기술원 | - |
dc.title | Passive mode locking of rare-earth-doped fiber laser | - |
dc.title.alternative | 희토류첨가 광섬유레이저의 수동형 모드록킹 | - |
dc.type | Thesis(Ph.D) | - |
dc.identifier.CNRN | 114934/325007 | - |
dc.description.department | 한국과학기술원 : 물리학과, | - |
dc.identifier.uid | 000935217 | - |
dc.contributor.localauthor | Oh, Wang-Yuhl | - |
dc.contributor.localauthor | 오왕열 | - |
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