Abstract
We report on a passively mode-locked fiber laser emitting around . The self-starting mode locking is achieved in an unidirectional ring cavity by means of nonlinear polarization evolution. Stable single-pulse operation is observed for of average output power. This all-normal dispersion laser generates naturally chirped pulses with duration. The repetition rate is , resulting in pulse energy. External compression using bulk grating shortens the pulse duration down to .
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