The present work demonstrates a fibre-laser system with automatic electronic-controlled triggering of dissipative soliton generation mode. Passive mode locking based on the effect of non-linear polarisation evolution has been achieved through a polarisation controller containing a single low-voltage liquid crystal plate whose optimal wave delay was determined from analysis of inter-mode beat spectrum of the output radiation.

This work for the first time proposes and studies a method of frequency doubling of CW non-single-frequency fibre lasers with a high-Q resonator partially coupled to the fibre laser cavity. The proposed new approach resulted in the following parameters: laser's maximal output power 880 mW at 536 nm when pumped with 6.2 W at 976 nm, wavelength tuneability range 521-545 nm with the output power at the extreme ends of this range 420 and 220 mW correspondingly. The proposed configuration allows efficient non-linear transformation of both CW and pulsed radiation in a partially coupled enhancement cavity.

In this work, we present for the first time a method for quasi-smooth tuning of the second harmonic radiation of an Nd:YVO 4 /LBO laser within a 60-GHz range. Practicality of this method is demonstrated at the radiation output power of 1.5 W at 532 nm. The proposed method features automatic stitching of 12-GHz continuously tuneable ranges to the precision of the laser output line width (5 MHz). The stitching does not require a precision wavelength meter and is based on a high-finesse scanning confocal interferometer.

This work reports on the study of a new approach to achievement of high-contrast resonant signals from coherent population trapping (CPT) resonances in 87 Rb vapour based on feedback control and real-time digital processing of several measured parameters. This method consists in stabilisation of the value of a function depending on several system parameters measured as the frequency difference of the bichromatic pump radiation is scanned through adjustment of the pumping radiation power with a feedback loop. The present work made use of two such parameters: the pumping radiation power incident on and exiting from the optical cell. Exploration of the proposed method has shown that stabilisation of a linear combination of these two parameters results in a resonant peak whose contrast exceeds that of regular CPT resonance by more than two orders of magnitude at relatively slow CPT resonance scan rates, (scanning frequency of the frequency difference of the bichromatic field ∼1 Hz). When dynamically exciting the CPT resonance (the scan frequency of the frequency difference of the bichromatic field equal to 2 kHz), the resonant peak contrast was enhanced by over an order of magnitude.

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