Mode-Locked Bi-Doped All-Fiber Laser With Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating

We demonstrate a bi-doped fiber laser with dispersion compensation provided by a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. Reliable self-starting mode-locking was achieved by using an InGaAsN semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The all-fiber laser generated short optical pulses with a duration of 1...

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Published inIEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 21; no. 9; pp. 599 - 601
Main Authors Kivisto, S., Gumenyuk, R., Puustinen, J., Guina, M., Dianov, E.M., Okhotnikov, O.G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.05.2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Bismuth
Bragg gratings
Diffraction gratings
Dispersions
fiber Bragg gratings
Fiber gratings
Fiber lasers
Fibers
Laser mode locking
Lasers
Mirrors
mode-locked lasers
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical pulse generation
Optical pulses
Semiconductor lasers
Semiconductors
Solitons
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Summary:We demonstrate a bi-doped fiber laser with dispersion compensation provided by a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. Reliable self-starting mode-locking was achieved by using an InGaAsN semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The all-fiber laser generated short optical pulses with a duration of 1.9 ps at ~ 1165 nm. The large anomalous dispersion of the fiber grating ensured operation in the soliton pulse regime. This in turn enabled us to increase the repetition rate of the output pulse train up to 100.6 MHz via harmonic mode-locking.
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ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2009.2015277