Output characteristics of optical solitons in a passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

In this paper, we studied the output characteristics of optical soliton in a passively mode-locked ytterbium (Yb)-doped fiber laser by numerical simulation. The structure of the passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser was studied by modeling and analysis. The influence of the inter-cavity average group velocity dispersion on pulse width, pulse peak power and single pulse energy of optical soliton and self-similar pulse was investigated. Simulation results were very instructive for the practical application of the passiavely mode-locked Yb-doped fiber lasers.     

Multi-coupler side-pumped Yb-doped double-clad fiber laser

The side-coupler of angle polished method, using angle-polished multimode fiber and optical adhesive, is used to efficiently pump an Yb-doped double-clad fiber laser. The maximum coupling efficiency of 78.6%is achieved by the side-coupler for a multimode fiber with a circular core of 200 μm and a double-clad fiber with a 350/400 μm D-shaped inner cladding. While laser diodes (LDs) with three side-couplers are simultaneously used as pump sources, maximum output power of 1.38 W and slope efficiency of 48.9% are demonstrated in the fiber laser system.     

Dissipative Solitons characteristics in passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser under limitation of gain saturation energy

This paper is devoted to research the characteristics of the dissipative solitons formed in a passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber (YDF) laser under limitation of the gain saturation energy. The parabolic shape dissipative solitons with linear chirps are observed in the fiber laser. The influences of the gain saturation energy on pulse duration, peak power and single pulse energy of the dissipative solitons are investigated in-depth.     

Generation of wavelength-tunable transform-limited pulses from amonolithic passively mode-locked distributed Bragg reflectorsemiconductor laser

Generation of wavelength tunable transform-limited picosecond pulses from a monolithic passively mode-locked distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser is demonstrated for the first time. A wide tuning range of 12 nm is realized by changing the refractive index of the passive DBR region through a thin-film heater embedded on the DBR section without causing significant changes in pulse characteristics     

双包层掺Yb3+纤激光器的脉动现象及分析

对掺yb 3 双包层光纤激光器的输入输出特性进行了实验研究.实验中发现当泵浦功率略超过阈值后,光纤输出功率开始变得不稳定,在一定范围内反复上下波动,并有明显的周期性,即出现所谓"自脉动"行为.利用可饱和吸收体模型对作用的具体过程给出了一种新的解释.     

Low-noise operation modes of a passively mode-locked fiber laser

Optimum low-noise operation modes of a passively mode-locked fiber laser are described and characterized. The laser produces 60 fs bandwidth limited pulses with root mean square amplitude fluctuations of 0.4% in a frequency-band from 30 Hz to 100 kHz. It is shown that low-noise operation up to 5 dB below the amplitude noise of the pump laser is possible with overall negative cavity group-velocity dispersion and a large difference between the intracavity loss under free-running and mode-locked laser operation. Additional frequency stabilization reduces the timing jitter to 4 fs in a frequency band from 1 kHz to 100 kHz and 110 fs in the 30 Hz to 100 kHz band     

High-power side-pumped passively mode-locked Er-Yb fiber laser

A side-pumped double-clad Er-Yb fiber laser passively mode-locked with a saturable absorber is demonstrated for the first time. Pumped with a power of 1 W from a broad-stripe diode laser, an environmentally stable cavity design produces positively chirped 3-ps pulses at a repetition rate of 30 MHz with an average output power of 50 mW. The pulses can be linearly compressed to 330 fs in a length of negative dispersion fiber, whereas nonlinear compression in standard telecom fibers yields 130-fs pulses with pulse energies of 1.2 nJ     

超长腔被动锁模光纤激光器的研究进展

超长腔被动锁模光纤激光器具有很多优点,它不但可以实现低重复频率运转,而且在同样的平均功率下可以实现更高的脉冲能量.综述了近年来几种不同的超长腔被动锁模光纤激光器的锁模机理、各自的特点及研究进展,分析了目前存在的技术问题以及未来的研究方向.     

Study on parameter optimization in a passively mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser

Optical soliton communication is the frontier research topic of optical fiber communication. In this paper, we study optical solitons generated by passively mode-locked Erbium-doped (Er-doped) fiber (EDF) laser. We analyze the variation of nonlinear equilibrium point parameter N of the passively mode-locked EDF laser in the role of group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and small-signal gain, and adjusting system parameter N is as close as to possible to 1. The ground state first-order optical soliton which generated through system parameter optimization of the passively mode-locked EDF laser will improve the efficiency and stability of optical soliton communication system. The research of this paper will have provided the theoretical foundation of parameter optimization in a passively mode-locked EDF laser. And it will be possible for the passively mode-locked fiber laser in optical fiber communication system to be applied from the laboratory stage to the practical application.     

Generation of ultrashort pulses from a neodymium glass laser system

A neodymium glass laser system capable of generating high-energy, ultrashort pulses at a convenient repetition rate is described. The effect of nonlinear frequency pulling on active mode locking is discussed. By minimizing the nonlinear frequency pulling, it is possible to routinely generate stable ~10-ps pulses at a 100-MHz repetition rate from the actively mode-locked oscillator. The regenerator amplifier increases the oscillator pulse energy to over 30 μJ at a 370-Hz repetition rate. Using intracavity self-phase modulation, the regenerative amplifier also broadens the pulse bandwidth to ~35 Å. By subsequent pulse compression while maintaining high energy, it is possible to produce 0.55-ps pulses with >10 μJ. An optical fiber pulse compressor further shortens the pulses to 30 fs (30 nJ), the shortest pulses ever generated at 1.054 μm from a neodymium laser system     

被动锁模光纤环形孤子激光器的自起动分析

本文从激光器工作的两种平衡态出发 ,具体分析了被动锁模光纤环形孤子激光器的自起动特性与其结构参数的关系 ,并用分裂步长法对激光器的自起动特性做了数值模拟 ,获得了稳定的孤子脉冲序列。     

Injection locking of a passively mode-locked laser

We present and analyze a model of a passively mode-locked laser, which is subjected to injection of a coherent pulse train. The model, based on soliton perturbation theory, predicts the possibility of coherent injection locking, and gives analytical estimates for the locking ranges. The ability to simultaneously lock the timing and the phase of the output pulses of a mode-locked laser to an injected, coherent pulse train is shown. The interesting limiting case of phase locking the mode-locked laser to a constant amplitude external injection, is addressed with implications for future coherent soliton communication systems     

高功率可调谐皮秒光纤激光产生技术

实验研究了一种基于增益开关激光二极管和掺镱光纤放大器的高功率可调谐皮秒激光脉冲产生技术与系统.采用增益开关激光二极管作为种子源,多级掺镱单模光纤预放大器和两级大模场双包层掺镱光纤主放大器构成的放大系统,以及增益补偿技术、可调谐滤波技术、Sagnac环技术和包层泵浦技术相结合的方法,获得了中心波长1 053～1 073 ...     

Generation and dynamics of special mode-locked pulses in an ultrafast Er-doped fiber laser with SMF-GIMF-SMF saturable absorber

<正>In this paper, we have demonstrated an Er-doped ultrafast laser with a single mode fiber-gradient index multimode fiber-single mode fiber(SMF-GIMF-SMF, SMS) structure as saturable absorber(SA), which can generate not only stable single-pulse state, but also special mode-locked pulses with the characteristics of high energy and noisy behaviors at proper pump power and cavity polarization state. In addition, we have deeply investigated the real-time spectral evolutions of the mode-locked pulses through the dispersive Fourier transformation(DFT) technique. It can be found that the pulse regime can actually consist of a lot of small noise pulses with randomly varying intensities. We believe that these results will further enrich the nonlinear dynamical processes in the ultrafast lasers.     

基于马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的可调谐掺镱光纤激光器

A ring-shaped all fiber tunable Yb-doped fiber laser with tuning range over 20 nm is demonstrated by using a fiber Mach-Zenhder interferometer as an intra-cavity filter which is constructed with two 3-dB optical couplers. The method for fabricating the fiber Mach-Zenhder interferometer is detailed. The fiber laser has a moderate milli-Watt level output power over the whole tuning range from 1050 to 1071 nm, a side-band suppression ratio greater than 45 dB, and a bandwidth less than 0.1 nm.     

Influences of GVD on the characteristics of soliton in a passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser

In this paper, the characteristics of soliton in a passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser modeled by a non-distributed model are numerically investigated with the split-step Fourier method. Based on the analysis and model, sech2-shaped soliton is obtained by controlling the group velocity dispersion （GVD） and small-signal gain of the gain fiber. The law that the dispersion influences the characteristics of soliton in the mode-locked fiber laser is researched in net-cavity averaged anomalous dispersion regime.     

Coherence analysis of noise-like pulses generated by an erbium-doped fiber mode-locked laser

The noise-like pulses(NLPs)with tunable fraction of the pedestal height in the whole intensity autocorrelation(AC)trace are numerically demonstrated in the designed erbium-doped fiber(EDF)mode-locked laser,which contains the saturable absorber(SA)with nonlinear polarization rotation(NPR),sinusoidal-shaped or Gaussian-shaped filter,two segments of EDFs,and two pieces of single-mode fibers(SMFs)with normal dispersion and anomalous dispersion,re-spectively.The pedestal ratio of the intensity AC trace can be tuned by changing the gain saturation energies of EDFs.The results show that when the net cavity dispersion is 1.06 ps2,the tuning range of the pedestal ratio for the NLPs can reach its maximum values,which are 0.51-0.89 and 0.58-0.88 for the sinusoidal-shaped and Gaussian-shaped fil-ters,respectively.In addition,an appropriate choice of filter bandwidth is also conducive to obtain a wide range of the tuning pedestal ratio for the intensity AC trace.     

Demonstration of down-chirped and chirp-free pulses fromhigh-repetition-rate passively mode-locked lasers

Knowledge and control of the chirp parameters of semiconductor lasers is a prerequisite to obtaining transform-limited pulses and/or to compensate for group velocity dispersion in fiber. Here, we report measurements of the sign and magnitude of chirp in high-repetition-rate mode-locked semiconductor lasers. The chirp of these monolithic lasers is measured in the frequency domain, using filtering and cross-correlation techniques. For different injection currents, a range of different chirp values is measured, including strongly down-chirped pulses at higher injection currents and transform-limited pulses to slightly up-chirped pulses at lower injection currents. The pulse chirp and the resulting broadening are due to the algebraic addition of opposite-signed chirps due to saturation of the absorption section and the gain section. These may cancel each other under some conditions, leading to a soliton-like transform-limited pulse