Sub-50 fs all-fiber Yb-doped laser with anomalous-dispersion photonic crystal fiber
Author
Zhang, Zewang
Cenel, C.
Hamid, R.
İlday, F. Ömer
Date
2013Source Title
2013 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference CLEO EUROPE/IQEC
Publisher
IEEE
Language
English
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Abstract
An intense research effort has been channelled into improving mode-locked Yb-fiber oscillators in recent years. Despite efforts in all-normal dispersion oscillators, dispersion management is evidently necessary to reach pulse durations below 50 fs. This is implemented most commonly with bulk optical components in Yb-doped fiber lasers. Increased robustness remains a valuable trait, for which all-fiber-integration is highly desirable. Photonic crystal fibers (PCF) with anomalous dispersion have small mode field diameters, enhancing nonlinear effects and usually are birefringent. The first mode-locked laser to incorporate a PCF was reported in 2002 [1]. However, mode-locking was not self-starting owing to the residual birefringence of the PCF Since then, a number of dispersion-managed Yb-doped fiber lasers using PCFs and all-fiber-integrated lasers have been reported. After 10 years, no all-fiber-integrated Yb-fiber laser has been demonstrated to support pulses below 60 fs [2]. © 2013 IEEE.
Keywords
BirefringenceElectron optics
Fiber lasers
Fibers
Locks (fasteners)
Nonlinear optics
Photonic crystal fibers
Quantum electronics
Single mode fibers
Ytterbium
All-normal dispersions
Anomalous dispersion
Dispersion management
Mode field diameter
Mode-locked laser
Optical components
Residual birefringence
Yb-doped fiber lasers
Mode-locked fiber lasers
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/28024Published Version (Please cite this version)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801389Collections
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