Mode-locked Ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser with 16 nJ pulse energy

Author

Arlt, M. ; Wessels, Peter ; Wandt, D. ; Fallnich, C.

Author_Institution

Laser Zentrum Hannover eV

fYear

2005

fDate

17-17 June 2005

Firstpage

524

Lastpage

524

Abstract

In this paper, we present an ytterbium-fiber laser system with a cladding-pumped single-mode active fiber achieving mode-locking by nonlinear polarisation rotation. It consists of the following principal modules: A double-clad ytterbium fiber, quarter-(QWP) and half-wave-plates (HWP) for polarization control, an optical isolator for unidirectional laser operation and a dispersive delay line with two parallel mounted diffraction gratings for compensation of the normal fiber dispersion. The pump light is delivered by a 980 nm laser diode through a dichroic mirror and the polarization beam splitter at the isolator rejected one polarization and acted as the output port

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; ring lasers; ytterbium; 16 nJ; 980 nm; cladding-pumped single-mode active fiber; dispersive delay line; double-clad ytterbium fiber; half-wave-plates; mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser system; nonlinear polarisation rotation; optical isolator; parallel mounted diffraction gratings; polarization beam splitter; polarization control; pulse energy; quarter-wave-plates; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Isolators; Laser mode locking; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Ring lasers; Ytterbium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568302

Filename

1568302