Abstract
Square nanosecond mode-locking was demonstrated in a short-cavity polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber laser with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM). Nonlinear phase shifts in the NALM enforced peak-power clamping and accordingly, the output pulse duration varied with the NALM gain. Gain competition of multipulse mode-locking was observed with short NALM loops. Such NALM-based mode-locking exhibited long-term stability against environmental disturbance.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 6869000 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1932-1935 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 19 |
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| State | Published - 1 Oct 2014 |
Keywords
- Laser mode locking
- fiber laser
- optical pulse