We report on the record-high pulse energy of nearly 1.7 μJ obtained directly from a self-mode-locked all-fiber erbium laser with a linear-ring cavity owing its extreme elongation up to several kilometers. Specially selected telecommunication fibers, providing large normal net cavity dispersion in the vicinity of 1.55 μm, have been used for this purpose. Along with compensation for polarization instability in the longer linear arm of the cavity, such approach has ensured stable wavebreaking-free mode-locked lasing with an ultra-low pulse repetition rate of 35

We propose the design of a novel γ-shaped fiber laser resonator and apply it to build a long-cavity normaldispersion mode-locked Er-fiber laser which features enhanced functionalities for management and optimization of pulsed lasing regimes. We report the generation of sub-nanosecond pulses with the energy of ∼ 0.5 µJ at a kilohertz-scale repetition rate in an all-fiber system based on the new laser design. A combination of special design solutions in the laser, such as polarization instability compensation in the ultra-long arm of the resonator, intra-cavity spectral selection of radiation with a broadband fiber Bragg grating, and polarization selection by means of a tilted refractive index grating, ensures low amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise and high stability of the laser system output parameters.

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We have proposed and tested a novel design of a short-length dispersion-managed hybrid highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF), which is intended for low-noise spectral supercontinuum generation with controlled intensity distribution over the range 1-2 µm. It is shown experimentally that such a HNLF facilitates development of a mobile femtosecond optical clockwork, which is based on a fiber-optic femtosecond laser system and an original fiber-coupled Nd : YAG/I 2 optical frequency standard with a long-term instability lowered to 3 × 10 -15 .