TITLE:
Description of the FDML Laser with Quasi-steady State Model of the SOA
AUTHORS:
Zhi Wang, Limei Zhang, Lanlan Liu, Zhenchao Sun, Yingfeng Liu, Fu Wang
KEYWORDS:
Mode Locked Laser; Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers; Tunable Filter
JOURNAL NAME:
Optics and Photonics Journal,
Vol.3 No.2B,
July
18,
2013
ABSTRACT:
Experiments and simulations demonstrate that an SOA-based
ring cavity can operate as a tunable laser, wavelength- swept laser or Fourier-domain-mode-locking
laser according to the relation between the roundtrip frequency and the
sweeping frequency of the filter.