All-fiber ytterbium soliton mode-locked laser with dispersion control by solid-core photonic bandgap fiber
Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 10, pp. 4368-4373 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.004368
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Abstract
We exploit an anomalous dispersion generated by a solid-core photonic bandgap fiber for dispersion compensation in an ytterbium fiber laser passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber. The bandgap-guiding fiber, adequately compatible with standard fiber based on guiding via total internal reflection, allows for an environmentally robust all-fiber subpicosecond soliton oscillator at 1 µm.
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OCIS Codes
(060.2340) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics components
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(260.2030) Physical optics : Dispersion
(320.7090) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast lasers
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Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: March 16, 2006
Revised Manuscript: April 24, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: April 26, 2006
Published: May 15, 2006
Citation
A. Isomäki and O. G. Okhotnikov, "All-fiber ytterbium soliton mode-locked laser with dispersion control by solid-core photonic bandgap fiber," Opt. Express 14, 4368-4373 (2006)
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