Summary form only given. Actively and harmonically mode-locked fiber ring lasers have been studied intensively because they can generate high-repetition-rate and transform-limited short pulses. However, their typical cavity length is 10-100 m, and the corresponding order of harmonics is 500-5000 for 10 GHz mode locking, which results in unstability due to the external perturbation and the large supermode noise. Use of an intracavity Fabry-Perot interferometer has been proposed to avoid the supermode noise. In this paper, we demonstrate stable active mode-locking operation at 10 GHz of a 10 mm-long erbium:ytterbium (Er3+:Yb3+) fiber Fabry-Perot laser (FFPL) in a ring cavity configuration
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Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Date of Conference: 2001