All-fiber nonlinearity-and dispersion-managed dissipative soliton nanotube mode-locked laser
Date
2015
Authors
Zhang Z.
Popa, D.
Wittwer, V. J.
Milana, S.
Hasan, T.
Jiang, Z.
Ferrari, A. C.
Ilday F. Ö.
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Applied Physics Letters
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0003-6951
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American Institute of Physics
Volume
107
Issue
24
Pages
241107-1 - 241107-4
Language
English
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Article
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We report dissipative soliton generation from an Yb-doped all-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed nanotube mode-locked laser. A simple all-fiber ring cavity exploits a photonic crystal fiber for both nonlinearity enhancement and dispersion compensation. The laser generates stable dissipative solitons with large linear chirp in the net normal dispersion regime. Pulses that are 8.7 ps long are externally compressed to 118 fs, outperforming current nanotube-based Yb-doped fiber laser designs.
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Fiber lasers, Fibers, Lasers, Locks (fasteners), Nanotubes, Photonic crystal fibers, Solitons, Yarn, Ytterbium, All fiber, Dissipative solitons, Linear chirp, Mode-locked laser, Non-linearity enhancement, Normal dispersion, Yb doped fiber laser, Yb-doped, Mode-locked fiber lasers