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

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).

Yin Ke1, 3, Li Yi-Ming2, Wang Yan-Bin4, Zheng Xin1, Jiang Tian2, †
       

Output characteristics at 121.0328 MHz. (a) Optical spectrum; (b) first peak of RF spectrum. Inset of panel (b) shows the intensity autocorrelation.