Title :
SESAM Mode-Locked, Environmentally Stable, and Compact Dissipative Soliton Fiber Laser
Author :
Lei Zhang ; Jiaqi Zhou ; Zhaokun Wang ; Xijia Gu ; Yan Feng
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Key Lab. of Solid-State Lasers & Applic., Shanghai Inst. of Opt. & Fine Mech., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We report an environmentally stable and ultracompact dissipative soliton mode-locked fiber laser with a semiconductor-saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). A polarization-maintaining fiber loop mirror is used as the linear cavity end mirror, which also serves other purposes, such as a laser output coupler, a polarizer, and a pulse-shaping bandpass filter. Self-starting stable mode-locking operation with 2-nJ pulse energy and 24-ps pulsewidth is achieved. The laser emission shows high polarization extinction ratio of over 22 dB, with excellent stability.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; extinction coefficients; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre filters; optical polarisers; optical pulse shaping; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; SESAM mode-locked fiber laser; energy 2 nJ; environmentally stable fiber laser; laser emission; laser output coupler; linear cavity end mirror; polarization extinction ratio; polarization-maintaining fiber loop mirror; polarizer; pulse energy; pulse-shaping bandpass filter; pulsewidth; self-starting stable mode-locking operation; semiconductor-saturable absorber mirror; ultracompact dissipative soliton mode-locked fiber laser; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Mirrors; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2014.2321262
