Self-starting self-similar all-polarization maintaining Yb-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9346-9351

  Nielsen, C K ^a,b   Ortac B ^a   Schreiber, T ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Hohmuth, R ^a   Richter, W ^a,c   Tunnermann A ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c BATOP GmbH   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; YTTERBIUM;

POLARIZATION MAINTAINING (PM) FIBERS; SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS (SAM);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 27744592092     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009346     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. M. E. Fermann, V. I. Kruglov, B. C. Thomsen, J. M. Dudley, and J. D. Harvey, "Self-Similar Propagation and Amplification of Parabolic Pulses in Optical Fibers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 6010-6013 (2000).
2. J. Limpert, T. Schreiber, T. Clausnitrer, K. Zöllner, H.-J. Fuchs, E.-B. Kley, H. Zellmer, and A. Tünnermann, "High-power femtoseconf Yb-doped fiber amplifier," Opt. Express 10, 628-638 (2002), http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-14-628.
3. V. I. Kruglov, A. C. Peacock, and J. D. Harvey, "Self-similar propagation of parabolic pulses in normal-dispersion fiber amplifiers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 461-469 (2002).
4. I. N. Duling III, "Subpicosecond all-fiber Erbium laser," Electron. Lett. 27 544-545 (1991).
5. K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H.A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, "77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser," Opt. Lett. 18 1080-1082 (1993)
6. K. Tamura, L. E. Nelson, H. A. Haus, and E. P. Ippen, "Soliton versus nonsoliton operation of fiber ring lasers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 64, 149 (1994).
7. M. Hofer, M. E. Fermann, and L. Goldberg, "High power side-pumped passively mode-locked Er-Yb fiber laser," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 10, 1247-1249 (1998).
8. L. Lefort, J. H. V. Price, D. J. Richardson, G. J. Sphler, R. Pashotta, U. Keller, A. R. Fry, and J. Weston, "Practical low-noise stretched-pulse Yb3+-doped fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 27, 291-293 (2002).
9. B. Ortac, A. Hideur, T. Chartier, M. Brunel, C. zkul, F. Sanchez, "90 fs generation from a stretched-pulse ytterbium doped fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 28, 1305 (2003).
10. F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, H. Lim, F. W. Wise, W. G. Clark, "Generation of 50-fs, 5-nJ pulses at 1.03 m from a wave-breaking-free fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 28, 1365-1367 (2003).
11. J. Buckley, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and T. Sosnowski, "Femtosecond fiber lasers with pulse energies above 10 nJ," Opt. Lett. 30, 1888 (2005).
12. F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, and F. W. Wise "Self-Similar Evolution of Parabolic Pulses in a Laser," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004).
13. M. E. Hermann, L.-M. Yang, M. L. Stock, and M. J. Andrejco, "Environmentally stable Kerr-type mode-locked erbium fiber laser producing 360-fs pulses," Opt. Lett. 19, 43-45 (1994).
14. H. Lim, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, "Environmentally-stable femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with birefringent photonic bandgap fiber," Opt. Express 13, 3460-3464 (2005), http://www.opticsexpress.org/ abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-9-3460.
15. I. Hartl, G. Imeshev, L. Dong, G. C. Cho and M. E. Fermann, "Ultra-compact dispersion compensated femtosecond fiber oscillators and amplifiers," CLEO, Baltimore, paper CThG1, May 2005.
16. www.batop.de
17. T. Clausnitzer, J. Limpert, K. Zöllner, H. Zellmer, H.-J. Fuchs, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, M. Jupé, and D. Ristau, "Highly efficient transmission gratings in fused silica for chirped-pulse amplification systems," Appl. Opt. 42, 6934-6938 (2003).
18. M. Guina, N. Xiang, A. Vainionpää, O. G. Okhotnikov, T. Sajavaara, and J. Keinonen, "Self-starting stretched-pulse fiber laser mode locked and stabilized with slow and fast semiconductor saturable absorbers," Opt. Lett. 26 1809-1811 (2001)