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Development of ultrashort pulse fiber lasers for optical communication utilizing semiconductor devices

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Thoen, Erik R. (Erik Robert)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Erich P. Ippen.
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Abstract
The nonlinear reflectivity of semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors is investigated with ultrafast time-resolved and time-averaged reflectivity measurements. The relative contributions of absorption bleaching and induced absorption are studied as a function of fluence and wavelength. The impact of induced absorption on the stability of continuous-wave mode-locking is considered theoretically. Picosecond pulses are produced from an Er/Yb waveguide laser using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, and the influence of two-photon absorption on mode-locking is studied. A semiconductor mirror exhibiting only induced absorption is used to stabilize a GHz repetition rate active harmonically mode-locked fiber laser, improving supermode suppression by eliminating pulse dropouts.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-139).
 
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
 
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2000
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16747
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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