Title :
Self-starting passive harmonic mode-locked femtosecond Yb/sup 3+/-doped fiber laser at 1030 nm
Author :
Deng, Y. ; Knox, W.H.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Opt., Rochester Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate the first self-starting passively harmonic mode-locked femtosecond Yb/sup 3+/-doped fiber laser with up to 585 MHz scalable repetition rate and >45 dB of supermode suppression. 400 mW average power, /spl sim/240 fs pulses is achieved after amplification. Pulse-to-pulse jitter is characterized by optical cross correlation.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; jitter; laser mode locking; optical correlation; optical pulse generation; ytterbium; 1030 nm; 240 fs; 400 mW; 585 MHz; Yb/sup 3+/-doped fiber laser; femtosecond laser; laser amplification; optical cross correlation; passive harmonic mode-locked laser; pulse-to-pulse jitter; self-starting laser; supermode suppression;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
