Pulse generation in Yb-doped polarization-maintaining fiber laser by nonlinear polarization evolution

Liang Cheng-Bin¹, Song Yan-Rong^{1, †}, Dong Zi-Kai¹, Wu Yun-Feng¹, Tian Jin-Rong¹, Xu Run-Qin²

Transmission characteristics of ASA: (a) plots of transmission versus input peak power at different values of α, and (b) plots of transmission versus α with different input peak power values with cavity length being 23 m.