Femtosecond soliton generation in a praseodymium fluoride fiber laser

Guy, M.; Noske, D.U.; Boskovic, A.; Taylor, J.R.

doi:10.1364/ol.19.000828

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“…In this case, the total cavity energy along with the single pulse's energy is depicted as a function of increasing gain. This curve is in complete agreement with numerous experimental and theoretical findings [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Specifically, each of these experiments demonstrates that as the gain pumping is increased, the number of pulses in the cavity increases in an approximately linear and discrete manner as demonstrated in Fig.…”

Section: A Example 1: Transition Without Chaossupporting

confidence: 89%

“…The onset of multi-pulsing as a function of increasing laser cavity energy is a well-known physical phenomenon [1,2] that has been observed in a myriad of theoretical and experimental mode-locking studies in both passive and active laser cavities [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Aside from two purely theoretical (computational) studies [3,4], the bulk of these observations has been almost exclusively experimental in nature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Often it is the case that various of these branches are stable at the same time, thus leading to bistable behavior in the system [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Starting from initial white noise in the laser cavity, an effective model must select which branch of solutions is selected in the modelocking process.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Geometrical description of the onset of multi-pulsing in mode-locked laser cavities

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A simple iterative model is introduced quantifying the interaction of saturable gain and nonlinear loss in a mode-locked laser cavity. The resulting geometrical description of the laser dynamics completely characterizes the generic multi-pulsing instability observed in experiments. The model further shows that the onset of multipulsing can be preceded by periodic and chaotic transitions as recently confirmed in theory and experiment. The results suggest ways to engineer the nonlinear losses in the cavity in order to achieve an enhanced performance.

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Section: A Example 1: Transition Without Chaossupporting

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“…Additional references to work on mode-locked Nd +3 -doped fiber lasers may be found in the paper by Fermann et al in this issue. Work with Pr +3 -doped fluoride fiber lasers at 1.3 µm has employed the NALM in figure-8 cavities to generate 1.6-ps pulses [49] and 620-fs pulses [50]. A Tm +3 -doped silica fiber laser was mode-locked with nonlinear polarization rotation and produced sub-500 fs pulses tunable from 1.8 to 1.9 µm [51].…”

Section: Review Of Passive Mode-locking Techniques and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

Nelson¹,

Jones²,

Tamura³

et al. 1997

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

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Abstract. This paper reviews recent progress on ultrashort pulse generation with erbium-doped fiber ring lasers. The passive mode-locking technique of polarization additive pulse mode-locking (P-APM) is used to generate stable, selfstarting, sub-500 fs pulses at the fundamental repetition rate from a unidirectional fiber ring laser operating in the soliton regime. Saturation of the APM, spectral sideband generation, and intracavity filtering are discussed. Harmonic modelocking of fiber ring lasers with soliton pulse compression is addressed, and stability regions for the solitons are mapped and compared with theoretical predictions. The stretchedpulse laser, which incorporates segments of positive-and negative-dispersion fiber into the P-APM fiber ring, generates shorter (sub-100 fs) pulses with broader bandwidths (> 65 nm) and higher pulse energies (up to 2.7 nJ). We discuss optimization of the net dispersion of the stretched-pulse laser, use of the APM rejection port as the laser output port, and frequency doubling for amplifier seed applications. We also review the analytical theory of the stretched-pulse laser as well as discuss the excellent noise characteristics of both the soliton and stretched-pulse lasers. 42.60F; 42.65; 42.80 Fiber lasers were made possible in the 1960s by the incorporation of trivalent rare-earth ions such as neodymium, erbium, and thulium into glass hosts [1]. Soon thereafter neodymium was incorporated into the cores of fiber waveguides [2,3]. Due to the high efficiency of the Nd +3 ion as a laser, early work focused on Nd +3 -doped silica fiber lasers operating at 1.06 µm [4]. Doping of silica fibers with Er +3 ions was not achieved until the 1980s [5,6]. Since that time Er +3 -doped fiber lasers have received much attention, because the lasing wavelength at 1.55 µm falls within the low-loss window of optical fibers and thus is suitable for optical fiber communications. Rare-earth ions such as Ho +3 [7,8], Tm +3 [9-11], and * Current address: Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Road, Holmdel, NJ, USA * * Current address: NTT Access Network Systems Laboratory, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-11, Japan Yb +3 [12,13] have also been used as dopants or co-dopants in silica or fluoride fibers, allowing new lasing or pumping wavelengths, and Pr +3 has been incorporated into fluoride fiber, providing emission at 1.3 µm [14,15]. PACS:Among the numerous advantages of fiber lasers are simple doping procedures, low loss, and the possibility of pumping with compact, efficient diodes. The fiber itself provides the waveguide, and the availability of various fiber components minimizes the need for bulk optics and mechanical alignment. Many different cavity configurations can be easily built with fibers and fused-fiber couplers, including linear FabryPerot, ring, and combinations of the two. Enhancement of the fiber nonlinearity due to large signal intensities and long interaction lengths is an additional advantage of fiber lasers that is particularly important for mode-locki...

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“…CW lasing action in Pr 3+ -doped ZBLAN fiber was reported by Durteste in 1991 [56]. Due to the broad gain band, ultra-short pulse generation from Pr 3+ -doped ZBLAN fibers was then demonstrated by using nonlinear optical loop mirrors [120,121].…”

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High-Power ZBLAN Glass Fiber Lasers: Review and Prospect

Zhu

Peyghambarian

2010

Advances in OptoElectronics

280

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-NaF), considered as the most stable heavy metal fluoride glass and the excellent host for rare-earth ions, has been extensively used for efficient and compact ultraviolet, visible, and infrared fiber lasers due to its low intrinsic loss, wide transparency window, and small phonon energy. In this paper, the historical progress and the properties of fluoride glasses and the fabrication of ZBLAN fibers are briefly described. Advances of infrared, upconversion, and supercontinuum ZBLAN fiber lasers are addressed in detail. Finally, constraints on the power scaling of ZBLAN fiber lasers are analyzed and discussed. ZBLAN fiber lasers are showing promise of generating high-power emissions covering from ultraviolet to mid-infrared considering the recent advances in newly designed optical fibers, beam-shaped high-power pump diodes, beam combining techniques, and heatdissipating technology.

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Femtosecond soliton generation in a praseodymium fluoride fiber laser

Cited by 40 publications

References 10 publications

Geometrical description of the onset of multi-pulsing in mode-locked laser cavities

Geometrical description of the onset of multi-pulsing in mode-locked laser cavities

Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

High-Power ZBLAN Glass Fiber Lasers: Review and Prospect

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