Sub-100 fs mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser using a 45°-tilted fiber grating

被引：37

作者：

Zhang, Zuxing ^{[1
]}

Mou, Chengbo ^{[1
]}

Yan, Zhijun ^{[1
]}

Zhou, Kaiming ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Lin ^{[1
]}

Turitsyn, Sergei ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Aston Univ, Aston Inst Photon Technol, Birmingham B4 7ET, W Midlands, England

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2013年 / 21卷 / 23期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

DISPERSION-MANAGED SOLITONS; CARBON NANOTUBES; PULSE GENERATION; BRAGG GRATINGS; RING LASER; POLARIZATION; FEMTOSECOND; EQUALIZER; LOCKING; SYSTEMS;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.21.028297

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate generation of sub-100 fs pulses at 1.5 mu m in a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser using a 45 degrees-tilted fiber grating element. The laser features a genuine all-fiber configuration. Based on the unique polarization properties of the 45 degrees-tilted fiber grating, we managed to produce sub-100 fs laser pulses through proper dispersion management. To the best of our knowledge, this is the shortest pulse generated from mode-locked lasers with fiber gratings. The output pulse has an average power of 8 mW, with a repetition rate of 47.8 MHz and pulse energy of 1.68 nJ. The performance of laser also matches well the theoretical simulations. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：28297 / 28303

页数：7

共 32 条

[1] Dissipative dispersion-managed solitons in mode-locked lasers [J].

Bale, Brandon G. ;

Boscolo, Sonia ;

Turitsyn, Sergei K. .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2009, 34 (21) :3286-3288

[2] Femtosecond Er Doped Fiber Laser Using High Modulation Depth SESAM Based on Metal/Dielectric Hybrid Mirror [J].

Cai, Y. ;

Zhou, C. ;

Zhang, M. ;

Ren, L. ;

Chen, L. L. ;

Kong, W. P. ;

Pang, D. Q. ;

Zhang, Z. G. .

LASER PHYSICS, 2009, 19 (10) :2023-2026

[3]

Grelu P, 2012, NAT PHOTONICS, V6, P84, DOI [10.1038/nphoton.2011.345, 10.1038/NPHOTON.2011.345]

[4] Nanotube-Polymer Composites for Ultrafast Photonics [J].

Hasan, Tawfique ;

Sun, Zhipei ;

Wang, Fengqiu ;

Bonaccorso, Francesco ;

Tan, Ping Heng ;

Rozhin, Aleksey G. ;

Ferrari, Andrea C. .

ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2009, 21 (38-39) :3874-3899

[5] STRETCHED-PULSE ADDITIVE-PULSE MODE-LOCKING IN FIBER RING LASERS - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT [J].

HAUS, HA ;

TAMURA, K ;

NELSON, LE ;

IPPEN, EP .

IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 1995, 31 (03) :591-598

[6] Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser [J].

Ilday, FO ;

Buckley, JR ;

Clark, WG ;

Wise, FW .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2004, 92 (21) :213902-1

[7] Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM's) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers [J].

Keller, U ;

Weingarten, KJ ;

Kartner, FX ;

Kopf, D ;

Braun, B ;

Jung, ID ;

Fluck, R ;

Honninger, C ;

Matuschek, N ;

derAu, JA .

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 1996, 2 (03) :435-453

[8] All-fiber normal-dispersion single-polarization passively mode-locked laser based on a 45°-tilted fiber grating [J].

Liu, Xianglian ;

Wang, Hushan ;

Yan, Zhijun ;

Wang, Yishan ;

Zhao, Wei ;

Zhang, Wei ;

Zhang, Lin ;

Yang, Zhi ;

Hu, Xiaohong ;

Li, Xiaohui ;

Shen, Deyuan ;

Li, Cheng ;

Chen, Guangde .

OPTICS EXPRESS, 2012, 20 (17) :19000-19005

[9] 37.4 fs pulse generation in an Er:fiber laser at a 225 MHz repetition rate [J].

Ma, Ding ;

Cai, Yue ;

Zhou, Chun ;

Zong, Weijian ;

Chen, Lingling ;

Zhang, Zhigang .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2010, 35 (17) :2858-2860

[10] UV-induced polarisation-dependent loss (PDL) in tilted fibre Bragg gratings: application of a PDL equaliser [J].

Mihailov, SJ ;

Walker, RB ;

Lu, P ;

Ding, H ;

Dai, X ;

Smelser, C ;

Chen, L .

IEE PROCEEDINGS-OPTOELECTRONICS, 2002, 149 (5-6) :211-216

← 1 2 3 4 →