All-Optical 20-μHz-Level Repetition Rate Stabilization of Mode Locking With a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 2833-2837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Hao ◽  
Qingshan Zhang ◽  
Feihong Chen ◽  
Kangwen Yang ◽  
Heping Zeng
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 0801007
Author(s):  
杨松 Yang Song ◽  
郝强 Hao Qiang ◽  
曾和平 Zeng Heping

Author(s):  
Zhengru Guo ◽  
Qiang Hao ◽  
Junsong Peng ◽  
Heping Zeng

We report on environmentally stable long-cavity ultrashort erbium-doped fiber lasers, which self-start mode-locking at quite low thresholds by using spectrally filtered and phase-biased nonlinear amplifying long-loop mirrors. By employing 100-m polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) in the nonlinear loop, the fundamental repetition rate reaches 1.84 MHz and no practical limitation is found to further decrease the repetition rate. The filter used in the long loop not only suppresses Kelly sidebands of the solitons, but also eliminates the amplified spontaneous emission which exists widely in low-repetition-rate ultrafast fiber lasers. The bandwidth of the filter is optimized by using a numerical model. The laser emits approximately 3-ps pulses with an energy of 17.4 pJ, which is further boosted to $1.5~\unicode[STIX]{x03BC}\text{J}$ by using a fiber amplifier.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 085103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanyu Liu ◽  
Xinghe Jiang ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Tongxiao Jiang ◽  
Aimin Wang ◽  
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