Polarization Locking in a Modelocked Soliton Fiber Laser

S. T. Cundiff; B. C. Callings; W. H. Knox

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997),
paper QPD16

Polarization Locking in a Modelocked Soliton Fiber Laser

S. T. Cundiff, B. C. Callings, and W. H. Knox

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 1997

Baltimore, Maryland United States
18–23 May 1997
ISBN: 1-55752-501-3

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S. T. Cundiff, B. C. Callings, and W. H. Knox, "Polarization Locking in a Modelocked Soliton Fiber Laser," in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, J. Bokor, R. Slusher, P. Bucksbaum, and R. Falcone, eds., Vol. 12 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1997), paper QPD16.

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Abstract

A modelocked fiber laser that contains no explicit polarizing elements is observed to lock its polarization into a fixed state. The complex locking behavior depends on cavity birefringence and cannot be completely described by a simple model.

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