High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers
Mode-locking refers to the generation of ultrashort optical pulses in laser systems. A comprehensive study of achieving high-energy pulses in a ring cavity fiber laser that is passively mode-locked by a series of waveplates and a polarizer is presented in this paper. Specifically, it is shown that t...
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| description | Mode-locking refers to the generation of ultrashort optical pulses in laser systems. A comprehensive study of achieving high-energy pulses in a ring cavity fiber laser that is passively mode-locked by a series of waveplates and a polarizer is presented in this paper. Specifically, it is shown that the multipulsing instability can be circumvented in favor of bifurcating to higher-energy single pulses by appropriately adjusting the group velocity dispersion in the fiber and the waveplate/polarizer settings in the saturable absorber. The findings may be used as practical guidelines for designing high-power lasers since the theoretical model relates directly to the experimental settings. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6a6443bd7d554fb4aa13099d205b153f2025-08-20T03:33:41ZengWileyInternational Journal of Optics1687-93841687-93922012-01-01201210.1155/2012/354156354156High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber LasersEdwin Ding0William H. Renninger1Frank W. Wise2Philippe Grelu3Eli Shlizerman4J. Nathan Kutz5Department of Mathematics and Physics, Azusa Pacific University, P.O. Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000, USADepartment of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USADepartment of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USALaboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 21000 Dijon, FranceDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Box 352420, Seattle, WA 98195-2420, USADepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Box 352420, Seattle, WA 98195-2420, USAMode-locking refers to the generation of ultrashort optical pulses in laser systems. A comprehensive study of achieving high-energy pulses in a ring cavity fiber laser that is passively mode-locked by a series of waveplates and a polarizer is presented in this paper. Specifically, it is shown that the multipulsing instability can be circumvented in favor of bifurcating to higher-energy single pulses by appropriately adjusting the group velocity dispersion in the fiber and the waveplate/polarizer settings in the saturable absorber. The findings may be used as practical guidelines for designing high-power lasers since the theoretical model relates directly to the experimental settings.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/354156 |
| spellingShingle | Edwin Ding William H. Renninger Frank W. Wise Philippe Grelu Eli Shlizerman J. Nathan Kutz High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers International Journal of Optics |
| title | High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers |
| title_full | High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers |
| title_fullStr | High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers |
| title_full_unstemmed | High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers |
| title_short | High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers |
| title_sort | high energy passive mode locking of fiber lasers |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/354156 |
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