Strictly all-fiber picosecond ytterbium fiber laser utilizing chirped-fiber-Bragg-gratings for dispersion control

Ori Katz; Yoav Sintov

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2008.01.048

Strictly all-fiber picosecond ytterbium fiber laser utilizing chirped-fiber-Bragg-gratings for dispersion control

Ori Katz^*, Yoav Sintov

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Abstract

A compact, strictly all-fiber, picosecond pulse source based on ytterbium (Yb) doped fiber is described. Stable solitary mode-locking is obtained in a fiber-oscillator utilizing a carefully designed chirped fiber-Bragg-grating (C-FBG) for both dispersion control and spectral filtering. Self-starting is assured through the use of a fiber-coupled semiconductor-saturable-absorber-mirror (SESAM). The oscillator's 50 MHz 3.8 ps pulse-train output at 1064 nm wavelength is amplified to 1.2 W average power by an Yb-doped fiber-amplifier, yielding 6.45 ps parabolic pulses. Numerical simulations of the fiber-oscillator design based on the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE), agree well with the experimental results.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	2874-2878
Number of pages	5
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	281
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2008.01.048
State	Published - 15 May 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Mode-locked lasers
Optical fiber-lasers
Semiconductor devices
Ytterbium

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Strictly all-fiber picosecond ytterbium fiber laser utilizing chirped-fiber-Bragg-gratings for dispersion control

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