Abstract
We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a novel, to the best of our knowledge, mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with a saturable absorber based on the nonlinear Kerr beam cleanup effect. The saturable absorber was formed by a 2-m graded-index multimode fiber, and a single-mode fiber segment served as a diaphragm. With an all-normal-dispersion-fiber configuration, the laser generated dissipative soliton pulses with pulse duration of 26.38 ps and pulse energy more than 0.25 nJ; output pulses could be compressed externally to 615.7 fs. Moreover, the self-starting mode-locking operation of this laser exhibited a high stability with a measured signal-to-noise ratio of 73.4 dB in the RF spectrum.
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