Soliton Mode-Locked Large-Mode-Area Tm-Doped Fiber Oscillator

Zexiu Zhu; Zhipei Sun; Hui Zhang; Mengmeng Wang; Rongling Wei; Zhijian Zheng; Peiguang Yan; Shuangchen Ruan; Jinzhang Wang; Tawfique Hasan

doi:10.1109/LPT.2019.2959793

Soliton Mode-Locked Large-Mode-Area Tm-Doped Fiber Oscillator

Zexiu Zhu, Zhipei Sun, Hui Zhang, Mengmeng Wang, Rongling Wei, Zhijian Zheng, Peiguang Yan, Shuangchen Ruan, Jinzhang Wang^*, Tawfique Hasan

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We report a passively mode-locked fiber oscillator based on thulium-doped large-mode-area (LMA) fiber. Reliably mode-locking soliton operation can be readily achieved after the suppression of the higher-order modes by using mode field adapters in combination with coiling fiber method. The laser delivers 600-fs level pulses at ~\mu \text{m}$ with an average power of up to 243 mW and a repetition rate of 53.7 MHz. The output corresponds to a maximum pulse energy of 4.5 nJ, >5 times larger than that of a similar homemade mode-locked Tm laser with the LMA fibers replaced by single mode fibers, coinciding with theoretical prediction. The successful demonstration of our soliton mode-locked LMA fiber laser at ~\mu \text{m}$ offers another strategy for high performance ultrafast fiber sources at mid-infrared region.

Original language	English
Article number	8933024
Pages (from-to)	117-120
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2019.2959793
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2020
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

large-mode-area (LMA) fiber
mode-locked
nonlinear polarization evolution (NPE)
soliton
Ultrafast fiber laser

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Soliton Mode-Locked Large-Mode-Area Tm-Doped Fiber Oscillator. / Zhu, Zexiu; Sun, Zhipei; Zhang, Hui; Wang, Mengmeng; Wei, Rongling; Zheng, Zhijian; Yan, Peiguang; Ruan, Shuangchen; Wang, Jinzhang; Hasan, Tawfique.

In: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 32, No. 2, 8933024, 15.01.2020, p. 117-120.

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Soliton Mode-Locked Large-Mode-Area Tm-Doped Fiber Oscillator

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