The mechanism of femtosecond optical pulse generation in a self-starting Er3+ -doped fiber ring soliton laser and experimental research results are discussed. Using the nonlinear polarization rotation effect of the fi...The mechanism of femtosecond optical pulse generation in a self-starting Er3+ -doped fiber ring soliton laser and experimental research results are discussed. Using the nonlinear polarization rotation effect of the fiber for sat-urable absorbers (and then self-amplitude modulation) which acts as the mode locking mechanism in an Er3+ -doped fiber ring cavity laser, stable self-starting mode locking pulses have been generated. The shortest output pulse is 269 fs, with the central wavelength of 1.531 @m at the repetition rate of 21.37 MHz. The average output powers of the two terminators of the laser are 0.25 mW and 0.08 mW respectively. The threshold pump power which sustains the mode locking is 15 mW. Under high pump power, the laser works in a high order harmonic mode locking state. The mode locking pulse durations vs different cavity lengths are also studied.展开更多
In this Letter, we demonstrated the switchable single-and dual-wavelength femtosecond soliton generation in single-mode Er-doped fiber lasers with the usage of carboxyl-functionalized graphene oxide(GO-COOH) saturable...In this Letter, we demonstrated the switchable single-and dual-wavelength femtosecond soliton generation in single-mode Er-doped fiber lasers with the usage of carboxyl-functionalized graphene oxide(GO-COOH) saturable absorbers(SAs) for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The fiber laser generated a stable single-wavelength conventional soliton at 1560.1 nm with a pulse duration of 548.1 fs. The dual-wavelength solitons centered at 1531.9 nm and 1555.2 nm with a spacing of approximately 23 nm can be obtained by adjusting the pump power of the cavity. Our experimental results indicated the GO-COOH has great potential to be used in ultrafast fiber lasers as broadband SAs.展开更多
Seed laser pulses with average power of 146 pW and pulse duration of 480 fs were amplified to 14.5 mW. The pulse duration was compressed to 260 fs using 6 m high concentration Er3+ -doped fiber under forward pumping. ...Seed laser pulses with average power of 146 pW and pulse duration of 480 fs were amplified to 14.5 mW. The pulse duration was compressed to 260 fs using 6 m high concentration Er3+ -doped fiber under forward pumping. The amplified signal pulse energy was 0.691 nJ (corresponding to a peak power of 2 657.7 W) and the repetition rate was 20.84 MHz. Spectrum breakup was observed simultaneously. The spectrum of pulses amplified by 3 m Er3+ -doped fiber remains a single peak under different pump power. The amplified pulse duration was compressed abnormally with the increasing pump power using the backward pumping; that is, the amplified pulses were compressed with the increasing pump power under low pump power. When the pump power reached 38 mW, the shortest amplified pulse duration was 309 fs. With further increase in pump power, the amplified pulses began broadening, accompanied by a single peak spectrum under different pump power.展开更多
基金Project supported by Major Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KJ952-J1-705).
文摘The mechanism of femtosecond optical pulse generation in a self-starting Er3+ -doped fiber ring soliton laser and experimental research results are discussed. Using the nonlinear polarization rotation effect of the fiber for sat-urable absorbers (and then self-amplitude modulation) which acts as the mode locking mechanism in an Er3+ -doped fiber ring cavity laser, stable self-starting mode locking pulses have been generated. The shortest output pulse is 269 fs, with the central wavelength of 1.531 @m at the repetition rate of 21.37 MHz. The average output powers of the two terminators of the laser are 0.25 mW and 0.08 mW respectively. The threshold pump power which sustains the mode locking is 15 mW. Under high pump power, the laser works in a high order harmonic mode locking state. The mode locking pulse durations vs different cavity lengths are also studied.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11804276)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi,China(No.2019JQ-524)+2 种基金the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics Photonics(No.SKLST201808)the Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department(No.17JS122)the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology(No.SKL 2018KF01)。
文摘In this Letter, we demonstrated the switchable single-and dual-wavelength femtosecond soliton generation in single-mode Er-doped fiber lasers with the usage of carboxyl-functionalized graphene oxide(GO-COOH) saturable absorbers(SAs) for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The fiber laser generated a stable single-wavelength conventional soliton at 1560.1 nm with a pulse duration of 548.1 fs. The dual-wavelength solitons centered at 1531.9 nm and 1555.2 nm with a spacing of approximately 23 nm can be obtained by adjusting the pump power of the cavity. Our experimental results indicated the GO-COOH has great potential to be used in ultrafast fiber lasers as broadband SAs.
文摘Seed laser pulses with average power of 146 pW and pulse duration of 480 fs were amplified to 14.5 mW. The pulse duration was compressed to 260 fs using 6 m high concentration Er3+ -doped fiber under forward pumping. The amplified signal pulse energy was 0.691 nJ (corresponding to a peak power of 2 657.7 W) and the repetition rate was 20.84 MHz. Spectrum breakup was observed simultaneously. The spectrum of pulses amplified by 3 m Er3+ -doped fiber remains a single peak under different pump power. The amplified pulse duration was compressed abnormally with the increasing pump power using the backward pumping; that is, the amplified pulses were compressed with the increasing pump power under low pump power. When the pump power reached 38 mW, the shortest amplified pulse duration was 309 fs. With further increase in pump power, the amplified pulses began broadening, accompanied by a single peak spectrum under different pump power.
