We report on a passively mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with a repetition rate of 1.8 MHz. The laser was hybridly mode-locked via nonlinear polarization evolution and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. It generated chirped 3.8 ps long pulses with a pulse energy of 1.0 nJ which could be dechirped to a pulse duration of 93 fs.

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1. X. Zhou, D. Yoshitomi, Y. Kobayashi, and K. Torizuka, "Generation of 28-fs pulses from a mode-locked ytterbium fiber oscillator," Opt. Express 16, 7055-7059 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
2. A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, "All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20 nJ," Opt. Lett. 32, 2408-2410 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
3. V. Cautaerts, D. J. Richardson, R. Paschotta, and D. C. Hanna, "Stretched pulse Yb3+silica fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 22, 316-318 (1997). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
4. W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, "Giant-chirp oscillators for short-pulse fiber amplifiers," Opt. Lett. 33, 3025-3027 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
5. S. Kobtsev, S. Kukarin, and Y. Fedotov, "Ultra-low repetition rate mode-locked fiber laser with high-energy pulses," Opt. Express 16, 21936-21941 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
6. S. Zhou, D. G. Ouzounov, C. Sinclair, and F. W. Wise, "Generation of 400-fs solitons with 2-MHz repetition rate by a Yb-fiber laser," Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2006, 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE, 209-210 (2006).
7. K. H. Fong, K. Kikuchi, and S. Y. Set, "High-energy ultrashort pulse generation from a fundamentally mode-locked fiber laser at 1.7 MHz," Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America), paper OTuF2 (2007).
8. S. Kane and J. Squier, "Grism-pair stretcher-compressor system for simultaneous second- and third-order dispersion compensation in chirped-pulse amplification," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 661-665 (1997). [CrossRef]
9. Y. Zaouter, D. N. Papadopoulos, M. Hanna, F. Druon, E. Cormier, and P. Georges, "Third-order spectral phase compensation in parabolic pulse compression," Opt. Express 15, 9372-9377 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
10. K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, "77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser," Opt. Lett. 18, 1080-1082 (1993). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

• S. Kane and J. Squier, "Grism-pair stretcher-compressor system for simultaneous second- and third-order dispersion compensation in chirped-pulse amplification," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 661-665 (1997). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

• Y. Zaouter, D. N. Papadopoulos, M. Hanna, F. Druon, E. Cormier, and P. Georges, "Third-order spectral phase compensation in parabolic pulse compression," Opt. Express 15, 9372-9377 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• S. Kobtsev, S. Kukarin, and Y. Fedotov, "Ultra-low repetition rate mode-locked fiber laser with high-energy pulses," Opt. Express 16, 21936-21941 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• X. Zhou, D. Yoshitomi, Y. Kobayashi, and K. Torizuka, "Generation of 28-fs pulses from a mode-locked ytterbium fiber oscillator," Opt. Express 16, 7055-7059 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, "All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20 nJ," Opt. Lett. 32, 2408-2410 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• V. Cautaerts, D. J. Richardson, R. Paschotta, and D. C. Hanna, "Stretched pulse Yb3+silica fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 22, 316-318 (1997). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, "Giant-chirp oscillators for short-pulse fiber amplifiers," Opt. Lett. 33, 3025-3027 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, "77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser," Opt. Lett. 18, 1080-1082 (1993). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

• S. Zhou, D. G. Ouzounov, C. Sinclair, and F. W. Wise, "Generation of 400-fs solitons with 2-MHz repetition rate by a Yb-fiber laser," Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2006, 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE, 209-210 (2006).
• K. H. Fong, K. Kikuchi, and S. Y. Set, "High-energy ultrashort pulse generation from a fundamentally mode-locked fiber laser at 1.7 MHz," Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America), paper OTuF2 (2007).

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