Stanford Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab researchers developed a passive, magnet free, integrated on-chip laser stabilization and isolation device. Lasers need a way to prevent the light they emit from reflecting into the laser and destabilizing it.
A doped superfluorescent fiber source (SFS) has an enhanced mean wavelength stability. A method stabilizes the mean wavelength of a SFS. The method includes providing an SFS including a doped fiber.
The instability of the mean wavelength of a superfluorescent fiber source (SFS) is reduced by randomizing the polarization of light from a pump source or by using polarization maintaining components.
In a method of amplifying optical input signals over a wide bandwidth, the optical input signals are applied to an optical waveguide made from a rare-earth-doped amorphous yttrium aluminum oxide material (e.g., erbium-doped yttrium aluminum oxide material).
In a method of amplifying optical input signals over a wide bandwidth, the optical input signals are applied to an optical waveguide made from a rare-earth-doped amorphous material (e.g., erbium-doped yttrium aluminum oxide material).
Researchers in Prof. Robert Byer's laboratory have developed a new fiber laser technology for generating frequency combs with broadband output (an octave or more).