Compact all-fiber ring femtosecond laser with high fundamental repetition rate

doi:10.1364/OE.20.024607

Compact all-fiber ring femtosecond laser with high fundamental repetition rate

Xiaoming Wei, Shanhui Xu, Huichang Huang, Mingying Peng, and Zhongmin Yang »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 22, pp. 24607-24613 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.024607

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A 165-fs all-fiber ring laser is demonstrated with a fundamental repetition rate of 235 MHz based on a 5.7-cm-long Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ codoped phosphate glass fiber and a technique of nonlinear polarization evolution. In order to further enhance the fundamental repetition rate and compact the structure of the all-fiber laser, an optical integrated module is designed. By employing this novel optical module, a much more compact 105-fs mode-locking all-fiber ring laser, operating at a 325 MHz fundamental repetition rate, is realized.

OCIS Codes
(130.1750) Integrated optics : Components
(140.3380) Lasers and laser optics : Laser materials
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: August 15, 2012
Revised Manuscript: October 5, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: October 9, 2012
Published: October 12, 2012

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Xiaoming Wei, Shanhui Xu, Huichang Huang, Mingying Peng, and Zhongmin Yang, "Compact all-fiber ring femtosecond laser with high fundamental repetition rate," Opt. Express 20, 24607-24613 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-22-24607

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K. S. Abedin, N. Onodera, and M. Hyodo, “Repetition-rate multiplication in actively mode-locked fiber lasers by higher-order FM mode locking using a high-finesse Fabry-Perot filter,” Appl. Phys. Lett.73(10), 1311–1313 (1998). [CrossRef]
P. Polynkin, A. Polynkin, D. Panasenko, N. Peyghambarian, M. Mansuripur, and J. Moloney, “All-fiber passively mode-locked laser oscillator at 1.5 microm with watts-level average output power and high repetition rate,” Opt. Lett.31(5), 592–594 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. Zhou, D. G. Ouzounov, and F. W. Wise, “Passive harmonic mode-locking of a soliton Yb fiber laser at repetition rates to 1.5 GHz,” Opt. Lett.31(8), 1041–1043 (2006). [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(13), 1080–1082 (1993). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, and F. X. Kärtner, “Generation of sub-100-fs pulses at up to 200 MHz repetition rate from a passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser,” Opt. Express13(7), 2716–2721 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
T. Wilken, T. W. Hänsch, R. Holzwarth, P. Adel, and M. Mei, “Low phase noise 250 MHz repetition rate fiber fs laser for frequency comb applications,” in Conference on Laser and Electro-optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies (Optical Society of America, 2007), CMR3.
J. L. Morse, J. W. Sickler, J. Chen, F. X. Kärtner, and E. P. Ippen, “High repetition rate, high average power, femtosecond erbium fiber ring laser,” in Conference on Laser and Electro-optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (Optical Society of America, 2009), CML1.
J. L. Peng, T. A. Liu, and R. H. Shu, “Octave-spanning fiber laser comb with 300 MHz comb spacing for optical frequency metrology,” in Conference on Laser and Electro-optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (Optical Society of America, 2009), CTuK3.
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X. Dangpeng, W. Jianjun, L. Mingzhong, L. Honghuan, Z. Rui, D. Ying, D. Qinghua, H. Xiaodong, W. Mingzhe, D. Lei, and T. Jun, “Weak etalon effect in wave plates can introduce significant FM-to-AM modulations in complex laser systems,” Opt. Express18(7), 6621–6627 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. Li, A. Schülzgen, V. L. Temyanko, M. M. Morrell, S. Sabet, H. Li, J. V. Moloney, and N. Peyghambarian, “Ultracompact cladding-pumped 35-mm-short fiber laser with 4.7-W single-mode output power,” Appl. Phys. Lett.88(16), 161106 (2006). [CrossRef]
S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, T. Liu, W. N. Zhang, Z. M. Feng, Q. Y. Zhang, and Z. H. Jiang, “An efficient compact 300 mW narrow-linewidth single frequency fiber laser at 1.5 microm,” Opt. Express18(2), 1249–1254 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, W. N. Zhang, X. M. Wei, Q. Qian, D. D. Chen, Q. Y. Zhang, S. X. Shen, M. Y. Peng, and J. R. Qiu, “400 mW Ultrashort Cavity Low Noise Single Frequency Yb³⁺-doped Phosphate Fiber Laser,” Opt. Lett.36(18), 3708–3710 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
H. W. Chen, G. Q. Chang, S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, and F. X. Kärtner, “3 GHz, fundamentally mode-locked, femtosecond Yb-fiber laser,” Opt. Lett.37(17), 3522–3524 (2012). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
Z. C. Luo, A. P. Luo, W. C. Xu, H. S. Yin, J. R. Liu, Q. Ye, and Z. J. Fang, “Tunable multiwavelength passively mode-locked fiber ring laser using intracavity birefringence-induced comb filter,” IEEE Photonics J.2(4), 571–577 (2010). [CrossRef]
S. M. J. Kelly, “Characteristic sideband instability of periodically amplified average soliton,” Electron. Lett.28(8), 806–807 (1992). [CrossRef]
Z. C. Luo, A. P. Luo, W. C. Xu, C. X. Song, Y. X. Gao, and W. C. Chen, “Sideband controllable soliton all-fiber ring laser passively mode-locked by nonlinear polarization rotation,” Laser Phys. Lett.6(8), 582–585 (2009). [CrossRef]
M. E. Fermann, M. J. Andrejco, M. L. Stock, Y. Silberberg, and A. M. Weiner, “Passive mode locking in erbium fiber lasers with negative group delay,” Appl. Phys. Lett.62(9), 910–912 (1993). [CrossRef]

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[1] K. S. Abedin, N. Onodera, and M. Hyodo, “Repetition-rate multiplication in actively mode-locked fiber lasers by higher-order FM mode locking using a high-finesse Fabry-Perot filter,” Appl. Phys. Lett.73(10), 1311–1313 (1998). [CrossRef]

[2] P. Polynkin, A. Polynkin, D. Panasenko, N. Peyghambarian, M. Mansuripur, and J. Moloney, “All-fiber passively mode-locked laser oscillator at 1.5 microm with watts-level average output power and high repetition rate,” Opt. Lett.31(5), 592–594 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[3] S. Zhou, D. G. Ouzounov, and F. W. Wise, “Passive harmonic mode-locking of a soliton Yb fiber laser at repetition rates to 1.5 GHz,” Opt. Lett.31(8), 1041–1043 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[4] 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(13), 1080–1082 (1993). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[5] F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, and F. X. Kärtner, “Generation of sub-100-fs pulses at up to 200 MHz repetition rate from a passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser,” Opt. Express13(7), 2716–2721 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[6] T. Wilken, T. W. Hänsch, R. Holzwarth, P. Adel, and M. Mei, “Low phase noise 250 MHz repetition rate fiber fs laser for frequency comb applications,” in Conference on Laser and Electro-optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies (Optical Society of America, 2007), CMR3.

[7] J. L. Morse, J. W. Sickler, J. Chen, F. X. Kärtner, and E. P. Ippen, “High repetition rate, high average power, femtosecond erbium fiber ring laser,” in Conference on Laser and Electro-optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (Optical Society of America, 2009), CML1.

[8] J. L. Peng, T. A. Liu, and R. H. Shu, “Octave-spanning fiber laser comb with 300 MHz comb spacing for optical frequency metrology,” in Conference on Laser and Electro-optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (Optical Society of America, 2009), CTuK3.

[9] L. M. Zhao, C. Lu, H. Y. Tam, P. K. A. Wai, and D. Y. Tang, “High fundamental repetition rate fiber lasers operated in strong normal dispersion regime,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.21(11), 724–726 (2009). [CrossRef]

[10] D. Ma, Y. Cai, C. Zhou, W. J. Zong, L. L. Chen, and Z. G. Zhang, “37.4 fs pulse generation in an Er:fiber laser at a 225 MHz repetition rate,” Opt. Lett.35(17), 2858–2860 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[11] X. Dangpeng, W. Jianjun, L. Mingzhong, L. Honghuan, Z. Rui, D. Ying, D. Qinghua, H. Xiaodong, W. Mingzhe, D. Lei, and T. Jun, “Weak etalon effect in wave plates can introduce significant FM-to-AM modulations in complex laser systems,” Opt. Express18(7), 6621–6627 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] L. Li, A. Schülzgen, V. L. Temyanko, M. M. Morrell, S. Sabet, H. Li, J. V. Moloney, and N. Peyghambarian, “Ultracompact cladding-pumped 35-mm-short fiber laser with 4.7-W single-mode output power,” Appl. Phys. Lett.88(16), 161106 (2006). [CrossRef]

[13] S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, T. Liu, W. N. Zhang, Z. M. Feng, Q. Y. Zhang, and Z. H. Jiang, “An efficient compact 300 mW narrow-linewidth single frequency fiber laser at 1.5 microm,” Opt. Express18(2), 1249–1254 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[14] S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, W. N. Zhang, X. M. Wei, Q. Qian, D. D. Chen, Q. Y. Zhang, S. X. Shen, M. Y. Peng, and J. R. Qiu, “400 mW Ultrashort Cavity Low Noise Single Frequency Yb³⁺-doped Phosphate Fiber Laser,” Opt. Lett.36(18), 3708–3710 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] H. W. Chen, G. Q. Chang, S. H. Xu, Z. M. Yang, and F. X. Kärtner, “3 GHz, fundamentally mode-locked, femtosecond Yb-fiber laser,” Opt. Lett.37(17), 3522–3524 (2012). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[16] Z. C. Luo, A. P. Luo, W. C. Xu, H. S. Yin, J. R. Liu, Q. Ye, and Z. J. Fang, “Tunable multiwavelength passively mode-locked fiber ring laser using intracavity birefringence-induced comb filter,” IEEE Photonics J.2(4), 571–577 (2010). [CrossRef]

[17] S. M. J. Kelly, “Characteristic sideband instability of periodically amplified average soliton,” Electron. Lett.28(8), 806–807 (1992). [CrossRef]

[18] Z. C. Luo, A. P. Luo, W. C. Xu, C. X. Song, Y. X. Gao, and W. C. Chen, “Sideband controllable soliton all-fiber ring laser passively mode-locked by nonlinear polarization rotation,” Laser Phys. Lett.6(8), 582–585 (2009). [CrossRef]

[19] M. E. Fermann, M. J. Andrejco, M. L. Stock, Y. Silberberg, and A. M. Weiner, “Passive mode locking in erbium fiber lasers with negative group delay,” Appl. Phys. Lett.62(9), 910–912 (1993). [CrossRef]

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