Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser at 1060nm

Bowen, Patrick; Singh, Harman; Runge, Antoine F. J.; Provo, Richard; Broderick, Neil G. R.

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2015.11.043

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“…In addition, the complex alignment of many of the optical elements traditionally required for the laser cavity is replaced with a simple fusion of fiber components 4 . In fact, all-fiber lasers have been successfully implemented to achieve low-maintenance operation 5 – 7 and all-polarization-maintaining-fiber lasers are particularly robust with immunity to environmental factors including vibrations, temperature and humidity 4 , 8 – 10 . The potential clinical translation of fiber lasers is exemplified by a mobile cart stimulated Raman scattering microscopy system—featuring a picosecond (ps) fiber laser 11 —for nonlinear, label-free histopathologic imaging of surgical specimens in the operating room 12 .…”

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Custom fabrication and mode-locked operation of a femtosecond fiber laser for multiphoton microscopy

Davoudzadeh

Ducourthial

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2019

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Solid-state femtosecond lasers have stimulated the broad adoption of multiphoton microscopy in the modern laboratory. However, these devices remain costly. Fiber lasers offer promise as a means to inexpensively produce ultrashort pulses of light suitable for nonlinear microscopy in compact, robust and portable devices. Although encouraging, the initial methods reported in the biomedical engineering community to construct home-built femtosecond fiber laser systems overlooked fundamental aspects that compromised performance and misrepresented the significant financial and intellectual investments required to build these devices. Here, we present a practical protocol to fabricate an all-normal-dispersion ytterbium (Yb)-doped femtosecond fiber laser oscillator using commercially-available parts (plus standard optical components and extra-cavity accessories) as well as basic fiber splicing and laser pulse characterization equipment. We also provide a synthesis of established protocols in the laser physics community, but often overlooked in other fields, to verify true versus seemingly (partial or noise-like) mode-locked performance. The approaches described here make custom fabrication of femtosecond fiber lasers more accessible to a wide range of investigators and better represent the investments required for the proper laser design, fabrication and operation.

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Custom fabrication and mode-locked operation of a femtosecond fiber laser for multiphoton microscopy

Davoudzadeh

Ducourthial

Spring

2019

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“…When these counter-propagating beams interference back at the splitter, it will create the effect of a fast, artificial saturable absorption which favors a pulsed operation over a continuous wave (CW) operation [16,17]. Recently, there is a growing interest in using NALMs in all-PM-fiber configuration with PM fiber compatibility [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], particularly the Yb-doped NALM-based fiber lasers, primarily because of their promising operating wavelength for practically industrial applications and their power scalability. However, in these previously reported Yb fiber oscillators, multiple laser diodes (LDs) are employed, and extra-cavity free-space pulse pulse compressors are typically required, which give negative impacts in terms of cost effectiveness, system complexity and robustness [20,21,[23][24][25].…”

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All-Polarization Maintaining Fiber Laser and Pulse Compressor

Martínez

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IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

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Fiber lasers have become one of the most important technologies in various industrial, medical and scientific applications. However, their vulnerability to environmental disturbances, such as vibrations and thermal fluctuations, limits the range of practical operations outside of the laboratory. In this paper, we report a simplified, all-normal dispersion, completely all-polarization-maintaining fiber integrated laser operating at 1030 nm. Our laser system employs a single pump laser diode and an all-polarization maintaining fiber pulse compressor capable of generating 700 fs pulses with a pulse energy of 0.45 nJ.

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“…Ultrafast Yb-doped fibre lasers based on the all-normal dispersion (ANDi) cavity design have gained much attention in the last ten years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. It is one of the simplest designs for mode-locked Yb-doped fibre oscillators [9,10].…”

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Spectrally shaped chirped pulse amplification of an all-normal dispersion Yb-doped fibre laser

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We show experimentally and theoretically that the spectral profile of the seed pulse of an Yb-doped fibre-based chirped pulse amplifier (CPA) plays a dominant role for achieving an ultrashort compressed pulse. The picosecond seed pulse from an all-normal dispersion Yb-doped fibre laser can be compressed to 350 fs with a peak power of 25 MW. Better compressed pulse quality and a shorter pulse was achieved by the spectrally shaped CPA system as opposed to the system without spectral shaping.

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Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser at 1060nm

Cited by 20 publications

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Custom fabrication and mode-locked operation of a femtosecond fiber laser for multiphoton microscopy

Custom fabrication and mode-locked operation of a femtosecond fiber laser for multiphoton microscopy

All-Polarization Maintaining Fiber Laser and Pulse Compressor

Spectrally shaped chirped pulse amplification of an all-normal dispersion Yb-doped fibre laser

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