Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum Generation from an NALM Mode-Locked Yb-Fiber Laser System

Zhengru Guo; Qiang Hao; Song Yang; Tingting Liu; Hong Hu; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2655003

Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum Generation from an NALM Mode-Locked Yb-Fiber Laser System

Zhengru Guo
, Qiang Hao^*
, Song Yang
, Tingting Liu
, Hong Hu
, Heping Zeng

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute for Advanced Study in Precision Spectroscopy

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

22 Scopus citations

Abstract

We demonstrate a broadband all polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber laser system that provides 137-nJ pulse at 140-fs duration. The pulses are generated in a passively mode-locked laser in which the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror acts as the mode locker, an integrated nonreciprocal device biases π/2 phase shift to reduce the mode locking threshold, and a pair of gratings are involved to force the oscillator operating in its quietest mode. Self-started mode locking is first achieved in multiple-pulse regime with 250-mW pump power, and stable single-pulse operation with 1.1-ps pulse duration, 75-pJ energy, and 29-nm spectral width are obtained subsequently when the pump power is decreased to 135 mW. Being amplified and spectral broadened, the laser pulses lead to an f_ceo signal with >30-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) which is suitable for frequency comb stabilization.

Original language	English
Article number	7823006
Journal	IEEE Photonics Journal
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2655003
State	Published - Feb 2017

Keywords

Fiber Lasers
Supercontinuum generation.
mode-locked laser
ultrafast laser

Access to Document

10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2655003

Cite this

@article{cac0c028e89c4f078db3daeb424a6ce9,

title = "Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum Generation from an NALM Mode-Locked Yb-Fiber Laser System",

abstract = "We demonstrate a broadband all polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber laser system that provides 137-nJ pulse at 140-fs duration. The pulses are generated in a passively mode-locked laser in which the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror acts as the mode locker, an integrated nonreciprocal device biases π/2 phase shift to reduce the mode locking threshold, and a pair of gratings are involved to force the oscillator operating in its quietest mode. Self-started mode locking is first achieved in multiple-pulse regime with 250-mW pump power, and stable single-pulse operation with 1.1-ps pulse duration, 75-pJ energy, and 29-nm spectral width are obtained subsequently when the pump power is decreased to 135 mW. Being amplified and spectral broadened, the laser pulses lead to an fceo signal with >30-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) which is suitable for frequency comb stabilization.",

keywords = "Fiber Lasers, Supercontinuum generation., mode-locked laser, ultrafast laser",

author = "Zhengru Guo and Qiang Hao and Song Yang and Tingting Liu and Hong Hu and Heping Zeng",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.",

year = "2017",

month = feb,

doi = "10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2655003",

language = "英语",

volume = "9",

journal = "IEEE Photonics Journal",

issn = "1943-0655",

publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum Generation from an NALM Mode-Locked Yb-Fiber Laser System

AU - Guo, Zhengru

AU - Hao, Qiang

AU - Yang, Song

AU - Liu, Tingting

AU - Hu, Hong

AU - Zeng, Heping

PY - 2017/2

Y1 - 2017/2

N2 - We demonstrate a broadband all polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber laser system that provides 137-nJ pulse at 140-fs duration. The pulses are generated in a passively mode-locked laser in which the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror acts as the mode locker, an integrated nonreciprocal device biases π/2 phase shift to reduce the mode locking threshold, and a pair of gratings are involved to force the oscillator operating in its quietest mode. Self-started mode locking is first achieved in multiple-pulse regime with 250-mW pump power, and stable single-pulse operation with 1.1-ps pulse duration, 75-pJ energy, and 29-nm spectral width are obtained subsequently when the pump power is decreased to 135 mW. Being amplified and spectral broadened, the laser pulses lead to an fceo signal with >30-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) which is suitable for frequency comb stabilization.

AB - We demonstrate a broadband all polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber laser system that provides 137-nJ pulse at 140-fs duration. The pulses are generated in a passively mode-locked laser in which the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror acts as the mode locker, an integrated nonreciprocal device biases π/2 phase shift to reduce the mode locking threshold, and a pair of gratings are involved to force the oscillator operating in its quietest mode. Self-started mode locking is first achieved in multiple-pulse regime with 250-mW pump power, and stable single-pulse operation with 1.1-ps pulse duration, 75-pJ energy, and 29-nm spectral width are obtained subsequently when the pump power is decreased to 135 mW. Being amplified and spectral broadened, the laser pulses lead to an fceo signal with >30-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) which is suitable for frequency comb stabilization.

KW - Fiber Lasers

KW - Supercontinuum generation.

KW - mode-locked laser

KW - ultrafast laser

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85014891078

U2 - 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2655003

DO - 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2655003

M3 - 文章

AN - SCOPUS:85014891078

SN - 1943-0655

VL - 9

JO - IEEE Photonics Journal

JF - IEEE Photonics Journal

IS - 1

M1 - 7823006

ER -

Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum Generation from an NALM Mode-Locked Yb-Fiber Laser System

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this