Environmentally Stable Mode-Locked Fiber Laser With Dispersion Compensation by Index-Guided Photonic Crystal Fiber

Author

Herda, Robert ; Kivistö, Samuli ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G. ; Kosolapov, Aleksey F. ; Levchenko, Andrei E. ; Semjonov, Sergei L. ; Dianov, Evgueni M.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2008

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

219

Abstract

We exploit the anomalous dispersion generated by an index-guided photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for dispersion compensation in an ytterbium fiber laser passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber. A PCF, reasonably compatible with standard fiber, and a Faraday rotator in the cavity allow for robust all-fiber subpicosecond operation at 1 m, insensitive to environmental disturbance.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre dispersion; optical materials; optical saturable absorption; photonic crystals; ytterbium; Faraday rotator; JkJk:Yb; PCF; dispersion compensation; environmental disturbance; index-guided photonic crystal fiber; passive mode-locking; robust all-fiber subpicosecond operation; semiconductor saturable absorber; stable mode-locked fiber laser; ytterbium fiber laser; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser stability; Optical fiber polarization; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast optics; Dispersion compensation; Faraday rotator; fiber lasers; mode-locked lasers; photonic crystal fibers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.913236

Filename

4429334