Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 55, Issue 5, 051402(2018)

Stable Control of Dual-Cavity in Regenerative Mode-Locking Fiber Laser

Ke Tang1; , Jinlong Yu1; , Ju Wang1; , Wenrui Wang2*; *; , Chuang Ma1; , and Enze Yang1;
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  • Laboratory of Optical Fiber Communication, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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    A dual-cavity stable control scheme for regenerative mode-locking fiber laser is proposed. The scheme uses phase-locked loop to detect the microwave frequency drift caused by cavity length change of resonant cavity and realizes feedback compensation with piezoelectric ceramic. We use a microwave mixer to compare the phases of two microwave signals with the same frequency in photoelectric regenerative chamber. Cavity change is obtained and compensated by phase shifter. In this study, the regenerative mode-locking fiber laser outputs optical pulses with repetition frequency of 10 GHz and pulse width of 16.6 ps. The optoelectronic regenerative cavity outputs microwave signal with repetition frequency of 10 GHz,side-mode suppression ratio of 40 dB, phase noise of -127 dBc/Hz and the frequency shift smaller than 1 Hz in 70 min. Compared with the present regenerative mode-locking scheme, the proposed scheme can control cavity lengths of optical resonator and optoelectronic regenerative cavity simultaneously, and can output microwave signal with stable frequency and high quality pulse. The regenerative mode-locking fiber laser can work stably for a long time.

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    Ke Tang, Jinlong Yu, Ju Wang, Wenrui Wang, Chuang Ma, Enze Yang. Stable Control of Dual-Cavity in Regenerative Mode-Locking Fiber Laser[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2018, 55(5): 051402

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Oct. 20, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 11, 2018

    The Author Email: Wang Wenrui ( wangwenrui@zju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP55.051402

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