An approach for frequency division of an optical pulse train (OPT) based on an optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. When the OPT is injected into the OEO, a microwave signal with a frequency equaling fractional multiples of the repetition rate of the OPT is generated. This signal is then fed back to the OEO, maintaining its oscillation, while simultaneously serving as the control signal of a Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) in the OEO. The MZM acts as an optical switch, permitting specific pulses to pass through while blocking others. As a result, the repetition rate of the OPT is manipulated. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. Frequency division factors of 2 and 3 are successfully achieved. The phase noises of the OPT before and after the frequency division are investigated. Compared to previously reported systems, no external microwave source and sophisticated synchronization structure are needed.

脉冲时域相干合成技术主要通过对功率放大后的高重频脉冲序列进行时序合成，从而降低激光的重复频率，有效地提升输出脉冲的峰值功率与能量，避免放大过程中高峰值功率引起的非线性效应。该技术与空域相干合成相结合，能够突破单纤激光的性能极限，实现高能量、高平均功率和高峰值功率的超短脉冲激光输出，具有广阔的应用前景。介绍了超短脉冲光纤激光时域相干合成的基本原理和关键技术，综述了时域相干合成系统的发展历程及其关键技术的研究现状，重点介绍了近年来脉冲分割放大与脉冲相干堆积技术的研究进展，并对时域相干合成的不同技术路线进行了分析与比较，最后对其未来的发展方向进行了梳理，为相关领域的研究提供参考。

Based on the Nd-doped single-mode fiber as the gain medium, an all-fiber 12th harmonic mode-locked (HML) laser operating at the 0.9 µm waveband was obtained for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. A mandrel with a diameter of 10 mm was employed to introduce bending losses to suppress mode competition at 1.06 µm, which resulted in a suppression ratio of up to 54 dB. The 1st–12th order HML pulses with the tunable repetition rate of 494.62 kHz–5.94 MHz were obtained in the mode-locked laser with a center wavelength of ∼904nm. In addition, the laser has an extremely low threshold pump power of 88 mW. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that an HML pulse has been achieved in a 0.9 µm Nd-doped single-mode all-fiber mode-locked laser with the advantages of low cost, simple structure, and compactness, which could be an ideal light source for two-photon microscopy.