厦门大学电子科学与技术学院(国家示范性微电子学院), 福建 厦门 361005
以被动锁模正色散掺镱(Yb)光纤激光器为研究对象,实验比较研究了激光腔内滤波带宽对产生正色散束缚态孤子的影响。采用高掺Yb光纤作为增益介质,半导体饱和吸收镜作为锁模部件,获得1064 nm全光纤线型腔锁模激光器。当腔内带通滤波器选用不同带宽(0.2,1.0,1.2,2.3 nm)时,观察到不同的皮秒锁模脉冲状态。在滤波带宽较小(0.2 nm)或较大(2.3 nm)时,仅产生稳定的单脉冲耗散孤子;相反地,在滤波带宽适中(1.0 nm或1.2 nm)时,分别观察到典型的相位差为π和-π/2束缚态耗散孤子,脉宽和脉冲间隔均分别为3 ps和14 ps。将束缚态耗散孤子激光通过主控振荡功率放大技术放大至1.4 W后,将其注入到光子晶体光纤中,获得了750~1600 nm超连续谱(10 dB谱宽),输出功率约为0.7 W,相比传统耗散孤子抽运具有更好的光谱平坦性。
激光器 束缚态孤子 滤波带宽 超连续谱
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Information and Communication Branch, State Grid Jiangxi Electric Power Corporation Ltd., Nanchang 330077, China
2 Department of Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
We demonstrate a 2080 nm long-wavelength mode-locked thulium (Tm)-doped fiber laser operating in the dissipative soliton resonance (DSR) regime. The compact all-fiber dumbbell-shaped laser is simply constructed by a 50/50 fiber loop mirror (FLM), a 10/90 FLM, and a piece of large-gain Tm-doped double-clad fiber pumped by a 793 nm laser diode. The 10/90 FLM is not only used as an output mirror, but also acts as a periodical saturable absorber for initiating DSR mode locking. The stable DSR pulses are generated at the center wavelength as long as 2080.4 nm, and the pulse duration can be tunable from 780 to 3240 ps as the pump power is increased. The maximum average output power is 1.27 W, corresponding to a pulse energy of 290 nJ and a nearly constant peak power of 93 W. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the longest wavelength for DSR operation in a mode-locked fiber laser.
060.3510 Lasers, fiber 140.4050 Mode-locked lasers Chinese Optics Letters
2019, 17(3): 030602
