All-fiber all-normal dispersion laser with a fiber-based Lyot filter

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2010-04-15
Authors
Özgören, K.
Ilday, F. Ö.
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Optics Letters
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0146-9592
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Optical Society of America
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35
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8
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1296 - 1298
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English
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We propose the use of a short section of polarization-maintaining fiber as a birefringent medium to construct an all-fiber Lyot filter inside the cavity of a fiber laser. This allows mode-locked operation of an all-fiber all-normal dispersion Yb-fiber oscillator without the use of a bulk bandpass filter and using standard components. Moreover, filter bandwidth and modulation depth is easily controlled by changing the length and splice angle of the polarization-maintaining-fiber section, leading to an adjustable filter. At mode-locked operation, the 30% output fiber port delivers 1nJ pulses that are dechirped to 230 fs duration.

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