Title :
Novel Ring Cavity for Ytterbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Incorporated With Both SESAM and Grating Pair
Author :
Zhou, Chun ; Yang, Weijian ; Zhang, Guangxiao ; Cai, Yue ; Li, Jing ; Li, Peng ; Zhang, Zhigang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Beijing, Beijing
Abstract :
A novel ring cavity incorporated with both semiconductor saturable absorber mirror and grating pair is proposed and demonstrated in a Yb-doped fiber laser. The laser proves self-starting and delivers 84-fs pulses at 1038 nm with a spectral bandwidth of 22 nm. The pulse energy is 0.55 nJ.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; ring lasers; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; SESAM; energy 0.55 nJ; grating pair; ring cavity; self-starting; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; time 84 fs; wavelength 1038 nm; ytterbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Mode locking; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM); ytterbium-doped fiber laser;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2008.2007852
