Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser

Open Access Open Access

Abstract

We demonstrate a modelocked ytterbium (Yb)-doped fiber laser that is designed to have strong pulse-shaping based on spectral filtering of a highly-chirped pulse in the cavity. This laser generates femtosecond pulses without a dispersive delay line or anomalous dispersion in the cavity. Pulses as short as 170 fs, with pulse energy up to 3 nJ, are produced.

©2006 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
All-fiber normal-dispersion femtosecond laser

K. Kieu and F. W. Wise
Opt. Express 16(15) 11453-11458 (2008)

Properties of normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber lasers

Andy Chong, William H. Renninger, and Frank W. Wise
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(2) 140-148 (2008)

All-fiber ytterbium femtosecond laser without dispersion compensation

Michael Schultz, Heike Karow, Oliver Prochnow, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, and Dietmar Kracht
Opt. Express 16(24) 19562-19567 (2008)

Cited By

Optica participates in Crossref's Cited-By Linking service. Citing articles from Optica Publishing Group journals and other participating publishers are listed here.

Alert me when this article is cited.


Figures (3)

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Numerical simulation result: a) schematic diagram of the laser. A ring cavity is assumed, so the pulse enters the first SMF after the NPE. Results of numerical simulations are shown on the bottom. Power spectrum (b) and temporal intensity profile (c) after the second SMF.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. Schematic of all-normal-dispersion fiber laser: QWP: quarter-waveplate; HWP: half-waveplate; PBS: polarizing beam splitter; WDM: wavelength-division multiplexer.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 3. Output of the laser: a) spectrum, b) interferometric autocorrelation of the output, c) interferometric autocorrelation of dechirped pulse and the interferometric autocorrelation of zero-phase Fourier-transform of the spectrum (inset), d) intensity autocorrelation of the dechirped pulse.
Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved