Square nanosecond mode-locked laser based on nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

Yang Liu, Wenxue Li, Xuling Shen, Chao Wang, Zhiying Yang, Heping Zeng

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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 languageEnglish
Article number6869000
Pages (from-to)1932-1935
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume26
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2014

Keywords

  • Laser mode locking
  • fiber laser
  • optical pulse

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