Cladding-pumped passively mode-locked fiber laser generating femtosecond and picosecond pulses

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996 · Optics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.21.000967· OSTI ID:436470

Fermann, M E; Harter, D ^[1]; Minelly, J D; Vienne, G G ^[2]

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1. IMRA America, Inc., 1044 Woodridge Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 (United States)
2. Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ (United Kingdom)

Passively mode-locked fiber lasers cladding pumped by broad-area diode-laser arrays are described. With a dispersion-compensated erbium{endash}ytterbium fiber oscillator, 200-fs pulses with pulse energies up to 100 pJ are generated at a wavelength of 1560 nm. In a highly dispersive cavity, pulse widths of 3 ps with pulse energies up to 1 nJ are obtained. A saturable absorber is used for pulse startup, whereas nonlinear polarization evolution is exploited for steady-state pulse shaping. An environmentally stable design is ensured by use of a compensation scheme for linear polarization drifts in the cavity. {copyright} {ital 1996 Optical Society of America.}

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 436470
• Journal Information: Optics Letters, Journal Name: Optics Letters Journal Issue: 13 Vol. 21; ISSN 0146-9592; ISSN OPLEDP
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AUTOCORRELATIONS
FIBER OPTICS
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PULSE TECHNIQUES
SOLID STATE LASERS