• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 12, Issue 8, 081403 (2014)
Mingxiang Ma, Zhengliang Hu, Pan Xu, Wei Wang, and Yongming Hu
DOI: 10.3788/col201412.081403 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Mingxiang Ma, Zhengliang Hu, Pan Xu, Wei Wang, Yongming Hu. Experimental study on chaos generation in an all-fiber erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(8): 081403 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

We experimentally study the chaotic behaviors in a compact all-fiber erbium-doped fiber ring laser (ED-FRL) with an added Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) by using a phase-modulation method. A piezo-electric ceramic transducer (PZT) is incorporated in the MZI to introduce single-frequency phase modulation. The coexistence of intermittency and period-doubling bifurcation routes to chaos in the EDFRL system is observed by adjusting the modulation frequency or the phase modulation depth in the experiment. In addition, the EDFRL presents irregular multi-longitudinal-mode oscillation with a definite linear polarization when operating at intensity chaos state.
Mingxiang Ma, Zhengliang Hu, Pan Xu, Wei Wang, Yongming Hu. Experimental study on chaos generation in an all-fiber erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(8): 081403
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