All-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed dissipative soliton nanotube mode-locked laser

Journal Article · Mon Dec 14 04:00:00 EST 2015 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4937461· OSTI ID:22486223

Zhang, Z. ^[1]; Wittwer, V. J.; Milana, S.; Hasan, T.; Jiang, Z.; Ferrari, A. C. ^[2]; Ilday, F. Ö. ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara (Turkey)
2. Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FA (United Kingdom)

We report dissipative soliton generation from an Yb-doped all-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed nanotube mode-locked laser. A simple all-fiber ring cavity exploits a photonic crystal fiber for both nonlinearity enhancement and dispersion compensation. The laser generates stable dissipative solitons with large linear chirp in the net normal dispersion regime. Pulses that are 8.7 ps long are externally compressed to 118 fs, outperforming current nanotube-based Yb-doped fiber laser designs.

• OSTI ID: 22486223
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 24 Vol. 107; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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