Title :
Diode-pumped environmentally stable stretched-pulse fiber laser
Author :
Jones, D.J. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Haus, H.A. ; Ippen, E.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We present results obtained with a stretched-pulse polarization additive pulse mode-locked (P-APM) fiber laser using an environmentally stable cavity design. With 980-nm diode-pumping levels of 200-mW 1.2-nJ pulses with 50 nm of spectrum are obtained. These pulses can be externally compressed to sub-100 fs. The effects of high output coupling (>80%) and pumping configuration on output performance an d intracavity pulse dynamics are studied
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical fibre couplers; optical pulse compression; optical pumping; 1.2 nJ; 100 fs; 200 mW; 980 nm; diode-pumped environmentally stable fiber laser; diode-pumping levels; environmentally stable cavity design; externally compressed pulses; intracavity pulse dynamics; output coupling; output performance; polarization additive pulse mode-locked fiber laser; pumping configuration; stretched-pulse fiber laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/2944.649543
