Mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser emitting broadband pulses at ultralow repetition rates

Opt Lett. 2016 Nov 15;41(22):5270-5273. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.005270.

Abstract

We report on an environmentally stable, Yb-doped, all-normal dispersion, mode-locked fiber laser that is capable of creating broadband pulses with ultralow repetition rates. Specifically, through careful positioning of fiber sections in an all-PM-fiber cavity mode-locked with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror, we achieve stable pulse trains with repetition rates as low as 506 kHz. The pulses have several nanojules of energy and are compressible down to ultrashort (<500 fs) durations.