Scalar nanosecond pulse generation in a nanotube mode-locked environmentally stable fiber laser

R. I. Woodward; E. J R Kelleher; D. Popa; T. Hasan; F. Bonaccorso; A. C. Ferrari; S. V. Popov; J. R. Taylor

doi:10.1109/LPT.2014.2330739

Scalar nanosecond pulse generation in a nanotube mode-locked environmentally stable fiber laser

R. I. Woodward, E. J R Kelleher, D. Popa, T. Hasan, F. Bonaccorso, A. C. Ferrari, S. V. Popov, J. R. Taylor

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Abstract

We report an environmentally stable nanotube mode-locked fiber laser producing linearly-polarized, nanosecond pulses. A simple all-polarization-maintaining fiber ring cavity is used, including 300 m of highly nonlinear fiber to elongate the cavity and increase intracavity dispersion and nonlinearity. The laser generates scalar pulses with a duration of 1.23 ns at a center wavelength of 1042 nm, with 1.3-nm bandwidth and at 641-kHz repetition rate. Despite the long cavity, the output characteristics show no significant variation when the cavity is perturbed, and the degree of polarization remains at 97%.

Original language	English
Article number	6832525
Pages (from-to)	1672-1675
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	26
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2014.2330739
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

fiber lasers
Laser mode locking
optical polarization
optical pulse shaping

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