Efficient femtosecond pulse generation in an all-normal-dispersion Yb:fiber ring laser at 605 MHz repetition rate

Hongyu Yang; Aimin Wang; Zhigang Zhang

doi:10.1364/OL.37.000954

Efficient femtosecond pulse generation in an all-normal-dispersion Yb:fiber ring laser at 605 MHz repetition rate

Opt Lett. 2012 Mar 1;37(5):954-6. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.000954.

Authors

Hongyu Yang¹, Aimin Wang, Zhigang Zhang

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Quantum Electronics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

PMID: 22378450
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.000954

Abstract

We report a 1030 nm-wavelength Yb:fiber laser that produces the shortest/direct output pulse duration (502 fs) among all-normal-dispersion fiber lasers at the highest repetition rate (605 MHz) among the passively fundamentally mode-locked fiber lasers. The laser also exhibits an optical efficiency of 70% at CW and 65% at mode-locking modes.