The synchronization of ultrashort pulses is an important research content in laser technology and has important applications in the fields of pump probe, optical frequency metrology, optical coherent synthesis, and nonlinear optics, etc. In this paper, the mode locking of two Yb-doped fiber lasers is realized by nonlinear polarization rotation, and then two circulators are used to make both two laser beams propagate in a piece of fiber. By matching the cavity length of one laser to the other, and with the cross phase modulation of two laser beams in the shared single-mode fiber, two lasers are passively synchronized. Two lasers deliver picosecond pulses near 1.04 μm and 1.05 μm, respectively, and the repetition rate is locked around 38.1100 MHz.
A stable Yb doped pulsed fiber nonlinear amplifier are demonstrated. A noise like pulse with the pulse width of 84 fs is generated after compressing by the grating pair. The peak power is 12 kW and the signal-to-noise ratio of RF spectrum is over 80 dB. This experiment is expected to be applied in nonlinear imaging and other fields.
The rectangular noise-like pulse (NLP) and dissipative soliton resonance (DSR) were generated in a thulium-doped fiber laser based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). The NLP and DSR pulses could be switched in the fiber laser by properly manipulating the intracavitary polarization controller (PC). The two different states are investigated by using the optical spectrum and radio frequency spectrum. The center wavelength of NLP is 1930.11 nm with the 3-dB bandwidth of 12.19 nm, and aforesaid parameters of DSR is 1944.04 nm, 10.36 nm, respectively. The radio frequency spectrum of the NLP pulse has two sub-peaks obviously, corresponding to the unstable long pulse train in the time domain. These findings may contribute to distinguish two rectangular pulses and lucubrate the dynamics of the rectangular pulses.
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