Stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber erbium ring laser with low-nonlinear negative-dispersion single mode fiber (original) (raw)
Self-stabilized passive, harmonically mode-locked stretched-pulse erbium fiber ring laser
Optics Letters, 2002
We have studied a passive, harmonically mode-locked stretched-pulse erbium fiber ring laser with net positive dispersion that is self-stabilized by gain depletion and electrostriction. Periodic pulses with supermode suppression of .75 dB and picosecond jitter are achieved. The pulses are compressible to 125 fs by external chirp compensation. The repetition rate is 220 MHz, and the average power is as high as 80 mW.
Effect of doped fiber length on the stretch pulses of a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser
Laser Physics, 2012
A passively self-starting mode-locked fiber ring laser is demonstrated using a highly concentrated Erbium doped fiber (EDF) with a saturable absorber. The effect of EDF length on the performance of the laser is investigated. Stable stretched pulses are obtained at wavelength region of 1560nm with a repetition rate ranging from 10.1 to 12.1 MHz and a pulse width stretching from 0.52 to 0.75 ps as the EDF length is reduced from 4.5 to 1.5 m. The repetition rate goes higher as the cavity length decreases when a shorter EDF is used but the pulse width reduces as the EDF length increases since the total group velocity dispersion (GVD) in the cavity is close to zero. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2012. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1054660X12070134
Laser Physics Letters, 2013
An all-fiber S-band mode-locked Er-doped fiber ring laser operated at 1503 nm is experimentally demonstrated by utilizing the polarization additive-pulse mode-locking (P-APM) mechanism. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first P-APM mode-locked fiber laser operating in the S-band. The gain medium is an S-band Er-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) composed of two Er-doped fiber stages with the technique of depressed-cladding to cut off the fundamental mode. Stable single-pulse operation is achieved within the available pump power range. Besides, characterization of the S-band EDFA module, such as the wavelength dependences of the gain and noise figure, the slope efficiency, as well as the dependence of the pump power on the gain for different input powers is performed. In addition, analysis of the proposed S-band mode-locked fiber laser, such as the pump power dependence of the pulse-width and optical bandwidth, and pulse-width compression is also provided.
Theoretical study of the stretched-pulse erbium-doped fiber laser
Physical Review A, 2003
The mode-locking properties of a stretched-pulse erbium-doped fiber laser are theoretically investigated. We consider a unidirectional ring cavity composed of a birefringent erbium-doped fiber and a birefringent undoped fiber. An intracavity polarizer is used to achieve mode locking through nonlinear polarization rotation. The model takes into account the orientation of the eigenaxes of both fibers as well as the orientation of the intracavity polarizer. A master mode-locking equation is derived for the envelope of the electric field. This allows an analytic investigation of the stability of the mode-locking solution as a function of the angle between the eigenaxes of the two fibers. It is demonstrated that the optimization of the ranges of mode locking requires the alignment of the eigenaxis of the two fibers.
Applied optics, 2016
We report on the stable picosecond and femtosecond pulse generation from the bidirectional erbium-doped all-fiber ring laser hybridly mode-locked with a coaction of a single-walled carbon nanotube-based saturable absorber and nonlinear polarization evolution that was introduced through the insertion of the short-segment polarizing fiber. Depending on the total intracavity dispersion value, the laser emits conservative solitons, transform-limited Gaussian pulses, or highly chirped stretched pulses with almost 20 nm wide parabolic spectrum in both clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) directions of the ring. Owing to the polarizing action in the cavity, we have demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, an efficient tuning of soliton pulse characteristics for both CW and CCW channels via an appropriate polarization control. We believe that the bidirectional laser presented may be highly promising for gyroscopic and other dual-channel applications.
Laser Physics Letters, 2015
We report for the first time to the best of our knowledge on the ultra-short pulse (USP) generation in the dispersion-managed erbium-doped all-fiber ring laser hybridly mode-locked with boron nitride-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes in the co-action with a nonlinear polarization evolution in the ring cavity with a distributed polarizer. Stable 92.6 fs dechirped pulses were obtained via precise polarization state adjustment at a central wavelength of 1560 nm with 11.2 mW average output power, corresponding to the 2.9 kW maximum peak power. We have also observed the laser switching from a USP generation regime to a chirped pulse one with a corresponding pulse-width of 7.1 ps at the same intracavity dispersion.
Quantum Electronics, 2013
We report an all-fibre ultrashort pulse erbium-doped ring laser passively mode-locked by single-wall carbon nanotubes dispersed in carboxymethylcellulose-based polymer films. Owing to intracavity dispersion management and controlled absorption in the polymer films, the laser is capable of generating both femto-and picosecond pulses of various shapes in the spectral range 1.53-1.56 mm. We have demonstrated and investigated the generation of almost transform-limited, inversely modified solitons at a high normal cavity dispersion.
Performance characterization of a harmonically mode-locked erbium fiber ring laser
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 1995
We describe the performance of a harmonically mode-locked, erbium fiber ring laser. Transform-limited pulses with durations of 20-50 ps at 5.044 GHz repetition rate are obtained. The modulation frequency can be detuned by up to *70 kHz and the lasing wavelength can be varied over the entire erbium gain bandwidth. Pulsewidths and pulse bandwidths are measured as a function of modulation power and frequency detuning. The laser is actively stabilized by locking intra-cavity Fabry-Perot etalon passbands to the laser modes.
A sub-100 fs stretched-pulse 205 MHz repetition rate passively mode-locked Er-doped all-fiber laser
Laser Physics Letters, 2013
We present an all-fiber, stretched-pulse erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked by nonlinear polarization evolution with a novel resonator design, incorporating a hybrid component serving as a pump coupler, isolator and output coupler. The laser was capable of generating 93 fs laser pulses with a fundamental repetition frequency of 205 MHz and average output power of more than 70 mW. The laser resonator consists of only three fiber-optic components, which makes the setup simple, compact and reliable. An integrated booster amplifier serves in this setup as an dechirping, amplifying and pulse duration tuning addendum.
169MHz repetition frequency all-fiber passively mode-locked erbium doped fiber laser
Optics Communications, 2010
Passively mode-locked stretched-pulse erbium fiber laser is presented. With all-fiber configuration 111 fs pulses were achieved with the fundamental repetition rate of 169 MHz and an average output power of more than 30 mW. Proposed setup shows excellent stability, reliability and 'turn-key' operation. The impact of the pump power on laser parameters is described.
Passively mode-locked laser using an entirely centred erbium-doped fiber
Laser Physics, 2015
This paper describes the setup and experimental results for an entirely centred erbium-doped fiber laser with passively mode-locked output. The gain medium of the ring laser cavity configuration comprises a 3 m length of two-core optical fiber, wherein an undoped outer core region of 9.38 μm diameter surrounds a 4.00 μm diameter central core region doped with erbium ions at 400 ppm concentration. The generated stable soliton mode-locking output has a central wavelength of 1533 nm and pulses that yield an average output power of 0.33 mW with a pulse energy of 31.8 pJ. The pulse duration is 0.7 ps and the measured output repetition rate of 10.37 MHz corresponds to a 96.4 ns pulse spacing in the pulse train.
IEEE Photonics Journal, 2017
In this work, we demonstrate a wavelength-tunable erbium-doped fiber (EDF) ring laser with stable single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) output. Here using the self-injection method and unpumped EDF-based saturable absorber can suppress other densely sidemode to achieve SLM. Hence, the output power and optical signal-to-noise ratio of proposed EDF ring laser are between −7.1 and 2.1 dBm and 30.1 and 36.5 dB in the tuning range of 1525.0 to 1574.0 nm, respectively. According to the proposed EDF laser structure, the wavelength operation range can extend to shorter L-band from C-band. Moreover, the output stability of the proposed EDF ring laser is also executed experimentally.
Hybrid mode-locked ultrashort-pulse erbium-doped fiber laser
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2014
One of the implementations of fs-laser with CNT-film for mode-locking is considered. Scheme of single-pulse, self-starting, stable mode-locked laser generation by appropriate polarization controllers adjustment is suggested. The mechanism of cavity length stabilization for a femtosecond fiber laser based on the pump source modulation is considered. Bandwidth of the feedback frequency stabilization system based on pump source modulation method is defined.
Applied Physics B, 2009
We report the generation of high-energy short pulses from a mode-locked erbium/ytterbium-doped largemode-area multifilament-core fiber laser operating in the purely anomalous dispersion regime. The self-starting fiber laser emits 400 mW of average output power at a pulse repetition rate of 44 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy of 9.1 nJ. The laser produces near transform-limited output pulses with pulse duration of 1.6 ps, corresponding to 5 kW peak power. This new type of low-nonlinearity fibers demonstrates the power and energy scaling potential of fiber-based short pulse lasers in the eye-safe region.
Isolator-free switchable uni- and bidirectional hybrid mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser
Optics Express, 2016
An Erbium-doped fibre ring laser hybrid mode-locked with single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) and nonlinear polarisation evolution (NPE) without an optical isolator has been investigated for various cavity conditions. Precise control of the state of polarisation (SOP) in the cavity ensures different losses for counter-propagating optical fields. As the result, the laser operates in quasi-unidirectional regime in both clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) directions with the emission strengths difference of the directions of 22 dB. Furthermore, by adjusting the net birefringence in the cavity, the laser can operate in a bidirectional generation. In this case, laser pumped with 75 mW power at 980 nm generates almost identical 790 and 570 fs soliton pulses with an average power of 1.17 and 1.11 mW. The operation stability and pulse quality of the soliton pulses in both unidirectional regimes are highly competitive with those generated in conventional ring fibre lasers with isolator in the cavity. Demonstrated bidirectional laser operation can find vital applications in gyroscopes or precision rotation sensing technologies.
Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 1997
This paper reviews recent progress on ultrashort pulse generation with erbium-doped fiber ring lasers. The passive mode-locking technique of polarization additive pulse mode-locking (P-APM) is used to generate stable, selfstarting, sub-500 fs pulses at the fundamental repetition rate from a unidirectional fiber ring laser operating in the soliton regime. Saturation of the APM, spectral sideband generation, and intracavity filtering are discussed. Harmonic modelocking of fiber ring lasers with soliton pulse compression is addressed, and stability regions for the solitons are mapped and compared with theoretical predictions. The stretchedpulse laser, which incorporates segments of positive-and negative-dispersion fiber into the P-APM fiber ring, generates shorter (sub-100 fs) pulses with broader bandwidths (> 65 nm) and higher pulse energies (up to 2.7 nJ). We discuss optimization of the net dispersion of the stretched-pulse laser, use of the APM rejection port as the laser output port, and frequency doubling for amplifier seed applications. We also review the analytical theory of the stretched-pulse laser as well as discuss the excellent noise characteristics of both the soliton and stretched-pulse lasers.
Dissipative soliton resonance mode-locked all-polarization-maintaining double clad Er:Yb fiber laser
Optics express, 2017
Our first demonstration of an all-PM fiber double clad erbium-ytterbium figure-8 laser mode-locked in a dissipative soliton resonance regime is presented. The laser generated µJ-level rectangular-shaped pulses with a maximum average output power of 1 W at 994 kHz repetition rate. The proposed configuration was characterized for two values resonator lengths - 44 and 205 m (total net-dispersion -0.9274 psand -4.3084 ps, respectively) to verify the possibility of non-complex tailoring of pulse parameters. The long-term stability of the all-PM configuration and self-starting of the mode-locking was experimentally confirmed by exposing the laser to forces of -5G to 7G magnitude on a vibration generator.
Nonlinear fiber external cavity mode locking of erbium-doped fiber lasers
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 1993
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