Title :
95-Femtosecond Suspended Core Ytterbium Fiber Laser
Author :
Chamorovskiy, Alexander ; Chamorovskiy, Yuri ; Vorob´ev, I. ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
Abstract :
We demonstrate a suspended-core ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber. Gain and anomalous dispersion simultaneously provided by the active fiber allow for 95-fs 1-μm all-fiber soliton oscillator.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; all-fiber soliton oscillator; anomalous dispersion; femtosecond suspended core fiber laser; fiber gain; passively mode-locked laser; semiconductor saturable absorber; time 95 fs; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Photonic crystal fibers; Propagation losses; Semiconductor lasers; Silicon compounds; Ultrafast optics; Ytterbium; Mode-locked lasers; optical fiber lasers; photonic crystal fibers; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM); ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2010.2055048
