Self-starting all-fiber PM Er: laser mode locked by a biased nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab4d42

Abstract A compact all-fiber polarization-maintaining Er:laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror is reported. Fundamental single-pulse mode-locking operation can always self start, with a cavity round-trip decreased from~4.7 m to~1.7 m. When the pulse repetition rate is 121.0328 MHz, output pulse is measured to have a center wavelength/3-dB spectral bandwidth/radio frequency signal to noise ratio (SNR)/pulse width of 1571.65 nm/18.70 nm/80 dB/477 fs, respectively. Besides, three states including the exponential growth, damping state, and steady state are investigated through the build-up process both experimentally and numerically. Excellent stability of this compact Er:laser is further evaluated, demonstrating that it can be an easy-fabrication maintenance-free ultrafast candidate for the scientific area of this kind.

Keywords: ultrafast fiber laser single-mode polarization-maintaining Er:laser

Received: 11 July 2019
Revised: 03 September 2019
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PACS:	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)
	42.60.Fc	(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)
	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61805282, 11802339, and 11504420), the Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, China (Grant No. 201601-02), the Open Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High Energy Technology, China (Grant No. GNJGJS03), the Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Laser Interaction with Matter, China (Grant No. SKLLIM1702), and the China Postdoctoral Innovation Science Foundation (Grant No. BX20180373).

Corresponding Authors: Tian Jiang
E-mail: tjiang@nudt.edu.cn

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Ke Yin(殷科), Yi-Ming Li(李仪茗), Yan-Bin Wang(王彦斌), Xin Zheng(郑鑫), Tian Jiang(江天) Self-starting all-fiber PM Er: laser mode locked by a biased nonlinear amplifying loop mirror 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 124203

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