High power dissipative soliton in an Erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked with a high modulation depth saturable absorber mirror

We report on a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser, using a high nonlinear modulation depth saturable absorber mirror, in a Fabry-Perot cavity. A segment of dispersion compensation fiber is added inside the cavity in order to build a high-positive dispersion regime. The setup produced hig...

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Published in:Optics express 2009-06, Vol.17 (12), p.9537-9542
Main Authors: Cabasse, A, Martel, G, Oudar, J L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplifiers, Electronic
Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Fiber Optic Technology - instrumentation
Lasers, Solid-State
Lenses
Light
Reproducibility of Results
Scattering, Radiation
Sensitivity and Specificity
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Summary:We report on a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser, using a high nonlinear modulation depth saturable absorber mirror, in a Fabry-Perot cavity. A segment of dispersion compensation fiber is added inside the cavity in order to build a high-positive dispersion regime. The setup produced highly chirped pulses with an energy of 1.8 nJ at a repetition rate of 33.5 MHz. Numerical simulations accurately reflect our experimental results and show that pulse-shaping in this laser could be interpreted as producing 'dissipative solitons'.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.17.009537