TY - JOUR
T1 - Passively mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser utilizing chirped-fiber-Bragg-gratings for dispersion control
AU - Katz, Ori
AU - Sintov, Yoav
AU - Nafcha, Yehuda
AU - Glick, Yaakov
PY - 2007/1/1
Y1 - 2007/1/1
N2 - A robust, self-starting picosecond pulse source based on ytterbium (Yb3+) doped fiber laser is described. Utilizing a chirped-fiber-Bragg-grating (C-FBG) for dispersion control, solitary mode-locking is obtained without bulk dispersion compensation elements. A semiconductor saturable absorber (SESAM) is used for stable self-starting. 3.6 ps pulses are produced, with 45 MHz basic repetition-rate and mW scale average output power at 1060 nm. Detailed numerical simulations based on the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation agree well with the experimental results and are used as a design tool for the solitary mode-locked picosecond laser. The presented design can be simply employed in an all-fiber environmentally-stable system.
AB - A robust, self-starting picosecond pulse source based on ytterbium (Yb3+) doped fiber laser is described. Utilizing a chirped-fiber-Bragg-grating (C-FBG) for dispersion control, solitary mode-locking is obtained without bulk dispersion compensation elements. A semiconductor saturable absorber (SESAM) is used for stable self-starting. 3.6 ps pulses are produced, with 45 MHz basic repetition-rate and mW scale average output power at 1060 nm. Detailed numerical simulations based on the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation agree well with the experimental results and are used as a design tool for the solitary mode-locked picosecond laser. The presented design can be simply employed in an all-fiber environmentally-stable system.
KW - Mode-locked lasers
KW - Optical fiber lasers
KW - Semiconductor devices
KW - Ytterbium
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33750936641&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.07.034
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.07.034
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AN - SCOPUS:33750936641
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 269
SP - 156
EP - 165
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 1
ER -