High-power dissipative solitons from an all-normal dispersion erbium fiber oscillator

We demonstrate output pulse energies of 20 nJ from an erbium-doped fiber oscillator that contains only positive dispersion fibers and is mode locked by use of nonlinear polarization evolution and stabilized with a birefringent filter. The fiber oscillator operates at a repetition rate of 3: 5 MHz with a central wavelength of 1550 nm. The positively chirped output pulses have a duration of 53 ps and are compressed to 750 fs. The large positive chirp of the output pulses and the steep side edges of the pulse spectrum indicate dissipative soliton operation. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America