Low-repetition-rate, all-polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber laser mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/11/114204

Abstract A low-repetition-rate, all-polarization-maintaining (PM)-fiber sub-nanosecond oscillator is presented, which is simple and low-cost, composed of standard components. The ring cavity is elongated by 114-m-long standard PM fiber, and passively mode-locked by a fiber pigtailed semiconductor saturable absorber. Linearly polarized pulses with 1.66 MHz repetition rate and 22 dB polarization extinction ratio are generated at a wavelength of 1030 nm, which is determined by an intracavity filter. In addition, to demonstrate that the oscillator is a good seed for high energy pulse generation, an all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier is built and amplified pulses with energy about 2 μJ are obtained.

Keywords: mode-locked fiber laser polarization maintaining master oscillator power amplifier

Received: 30 April 2017
Revised: 30 June 2017
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PACS:	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)
	42.60.Fc	(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)

Fund: Project supported by the Initiative Research Program of State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51527901).

Corresponding Authors: Xiao-Sheng Xiao
E-mail: xsxiao@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Xiao-Sheng Xiao(肖晓晟) Low-repetition-rate, all-polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber laser mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 114204

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