Flexible high-repetition-rate ultrafast fiber laser

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mao, Dong ^a   Liu, Xueming ^a   Sun, Zhipei ^b,c   Lu, Hua ^a   Han, Dongdong ^a   Wang, Guoxi ^a   Wang, Fengqiu ^b  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889569403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03223     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Haus, H. A. &Wong, W. S. Solitons in optical communications. Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 423-444 (1996)
2. Keller, U. Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers. Nature 424, 831-838 (2003) (Pubitemid 37021718)
3. Zhang, Z. Y. et al. 1.55 mm InAs/GaAs quantum dots and high repetition rate quantum dot SESAM mode-locked laser. Sci. Rep. 2, 477 (2012)
4. Liu, X. et al. Passively harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber soliton laser with a nonlinear polarization rotation. Laser Phys. 18, 1357-1361 (2008)
5. Gattass, R. R. & Mazur, E. Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials. Nat. Photonics 2, 219-225 (2008)
6. Sun, Z. et al. A compact, high power, ultrafast laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes. Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 253102 (2009)
7. Diddams, S. A., Hollberg, L. & Mbele, V. Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb. Nature 445, 627-630 (2007) (Pubitemid 46232879)
8. Liu, X. M. Pulse evolution without wave breaking in a strongly dissipativedispersive laser system. Phys. Rev. A 81, 053819 (2010)
9. Grelu, P. & Akhmediev, N. Dissipative solitons for mode-locked lasers. Nat. Photonics 6, 84-92 (2012)
10. Solli, D. R., Ropers, C., Koonath, P. & Jalali, B. Optical rogue waves. Nature 450, 1054-1057 (2007) (Pubitemid 350273615)
11. Krauss, G. et al. Synthesis of a single cycle of light with compact erbium-doped fibre technology. Nat. Photonics 4, 33-36 (2009)
12. Mao, D., Liu, X. & Lu, H. Observation of pulse trapping in a near-zero dispersion regime. Opt. Lett. 37, 2619-2621 (2012)
13. Kobtsev, S., Kukarin, S., Smirnov, S., Turitsyn, S. & Latkin, A. Generation of double-scale femto/pico-second optical lumps in mode-locked fiber lasers. Opt. Express 17, 20707-20713 (2009)
14. Lecaplain, C., Grelu, P., Soto-Crespo, J. M. & Akhmediev, N. Dissipative rogue waves generated by chaotic pulse bunching in amode-locked laser. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233901 (2012)
15. Turitsyn, S. K. et al. Random distributed feedback fibre laser. Nat. Photonics 4, 231-235 (2010)
16. Liu, X. M. Soliton formation and evolution in passively mode-locked lasers with ultralong anomalous-dispersion fibers. Phys. Rev. A 84, 023835 (2011)
17. Oktem, B.,U lgudur, C.&Ilday, F.O. Soliton-similariton fibre laser. Nat. Photonics 4, 307-311 (2010)
18. Liu, X. M. Dynamic evolution of temporal dissipative-soliton molecules in large normal path-averaged dispersion fiber lasers. Phys. Rev. A 82, 063834 (2010)
19. Dudley, J. M., Finot, C., Richardson, D. J. & Millot, G. Self-similarity in ultrafast nonlinear optics. Nat. Physics 3, 597-603 (2007)
20. Liu, X. Hysteresis phenomena and multipulse formation of a dissipative system in a passively mode-locked fiber laser. Phys. Rev. A 81, 023811 (2010)
21. Carruthers, T.&Duling III, I. 10-GHz, 1.3-ps erbium fiber laser employing soliton pulse shortening. Opt. Lett. 21, 1927-1929 (1996) (Pubitemid 126569198)
22. Haus, H. A. Mode-locking of lasers. IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron. 6, 1173-1185 (2000) (Pubitemid 32255332)
23. Martinez, A. & Yamashita, S. Multi-gigahertz repetition rate passively modelocked fiber lasers using carbon nanotubes. Opt. Express 19, 6155-6163 (2011)
24. Martinez, A. & Yamashita, S. 10 GHz fundamental mode fiber laser using a graphene saturable absorber. Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 041118 (2012)
25. Collings, B. C., Bergman, K. & Knox, W. H. Stable multigigahertz pulse-train formation in a short-cavity passively harmonic mode-locked erbium/ytterbium fiber laser. Opt. Lett. 23, 123-125 (1998) (Pubitemid 128563737)
26. Amrani, F. et al. Passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser operating at the 322nd harmonic. Opt. Lett. 34, 2120-2122 (2009)
27. Sobon, G., Krzempek, K., Kaczmarek, P., Abramski, K. M. & Nikodem, M. 10 GHz passive harmonic mode-locking in Er-Yb double-clad fiber laser. Opt. Communications 284, 4203-4206 (2011)
28. Lhermite, J. et al. Tunable high-repetition-rate fiber laser for the generation of pulse trains and packets. Opt. Lett. 32, 1734-1736 (2007) (Pubitemid 351292721)
29. Yoshida, E. & Nakazawa, M. Low-threshold 115-GHz continuous-wave modulational-instability erbium-doped fibre laser. Opt. Lett. 22, 1409-1411 (1997) (Pubitemid 127565219)
30. Sylvestre, T., Coen, S., Emplit, P. & Haelterman, M. Self-induced modulational instability laser revisited: normal dispersion and dark-pulse train generation. Opt. Lett. 27, 482-484 (2002) (Pubitemid 34618149)
31. Quiroga-Teixeiro, M., Clausen, C. B., Sørensen, M. P., Christiansen, P. L. & Andrekson, P. A. Passive mode locking by dissipative four-wave mixing. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 15, 1315-1321 (1998) (Pubitemid 128567542)
32. Peccianti, M. et al. Demonstration of a stable ultrafast laser based on a nonlinear microcavity. Nat. Communications 3, 765 (2012)
33. Razzari, L. et al. CMOS-compatible integrated optical hyper-parametric oscillator. Nat. Photonics 4, 41-45 (2009)
34. Schroder, J., Coen, S., Vanholsbeeck, F. & Sylvestre, T. Passively mode-locked Raman fiber laser with 100 GHz repetition rate. Opt. Lett. 31, 3489-3491 (2006) (Pubitemid 46034614)
35. Agrawal, G. P. Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics. (Academic Press, San Diego, 2001)
36. Ilday, F.O., Buckley, J. R., Clark, W. G. & Wise, F. W. Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004)
37. Tang, D. Y., Zhang, H., Zhao, L. M. & Wu, X. Observation of high-order polarization-locked vector solitons in a fiber laser. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 153904 (2008)
38. Liu, X. et al. Versatile multi-wavelength ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2718 (2013)
39. Agrawal, G. P. Amplification of ultrashort solitons in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 2, 875-877 (1990)
40. Liu, X. & Lee, B. A fast method for nonlinear Schrodinger equation. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 15, 1549-1551 (2003)