Passively mode-locked Er/Yb-codoped fiber ring laser with a fiber Bragg grating loop mirror

Shumin Zhang; Fuyun Lu; Chunxia Xie

doi:10.1117/1.2185548

1 March 2006 Passively mode-locked Er/Yb-codoped fiber ring laser with a fiber Bragg grating loop mirror

Shumin Zhang, Fuyun Lu, Chunxia Xie

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue 3, 034204 (March 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2185548

Abstract

An advanced design of an all-fiber passively mode-locked fiber ring laser is reported. By combining a fiber Bragg grating loop mirror with a segment of unpumped Er/Yb-codoped fiber as a saturable absorber, a stable continuous-wave mode-locking pulse with an even amplitude and a lowered noise background is obtained. The pulse width is narrower than 4 ns, with a repetition rate of 7.94 MHz. A high average output power of 319 mW and a slope efficiency of ~11.7% are achieved.

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Shumin Zhang, Fuyun Lu, and Chunxia Xie "Passively mode-locked Er/Yb-codoped fiber ring laser with a fiber Bragg grating loop mirror," Optical Engineering 45(3), 034204 (1 March 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2185548

Published: 1 March 2006

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