948 kHz repetition rate, picosecond pulse duration, all-PM 1.03 μm mode-locked fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization evolution

Boivinet, Simon; Lecourt, Jean-Bernard; Hernandez, Yves; Fotiadi, Andrei A.; Mégret, Patrice

doi:10.1117/12.2052108

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“…Such low small signal transmission is not the case for NOLMs with non-symmetrical coupling ratios [14,31]. Contrary to previously described all-PM-fiber cavities [22,[24][25][26], we are not using the scheme shown in Fig. 1(a); instead we explore the advantages of using several segments of a fiber according to designs presented in Fig.…”

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“…The cavity had a linear architecture employing an FM and produced 5.6 ps noise-like [23] pulses at 5.96 MHz repetition rate. Later, similar all-fiber configurations which have produced narrow bandwidth coherent picosecond pulses at low repetition rates from linear cavities were presented [24][25][26]. Recently, we have shown that PM NPE can be adapted for generation of 150 fs dissipative-soliton [27] ultra-short pulses in all-PM-fiber cavities [28].…”

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Nonlinear polarization evolution of ultrashort pulses in polarization maintaining fibers

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We examine properties of an ultrashort laser pulse propagating through an artificial Saturable Absorber based on Nonlinear Polarization Evolution device which has been realized with Polarization Maintaining fibers only (PM NPE). We study and compare in-line and Faraday Mirror geometries showing that the latter is immune to errors in the PM NPE construction. Experimental results for the transmission measurements of the PM NPE setup for different input linear polarization angles and various input pulse powers are presented. We show that PM NPE topology is of crucial importance for controlling the properties of the output pulse as it rules the contribution of cross-phase modulation to an overall nonlinear phase change. We also demonstrate an excellent agreement between the numerical model and experimental results.

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