Journal
HIGH POWER LASER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CHINESE LASER PRESS & CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2019.29
Keywords
erbium fibers; fiber lasers; fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; mode-locked lasers
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFB0407100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11434005, 11621404]
- Key Project of Shanghai Education Commission [2017-01-07-00-05-E00021]
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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 lowrepetition-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 mu J by using a fiber amplifier.
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