We integrally demonstrate 2 μm mode-locked pulses performances in all-fiber net anomalous dispersion cavity. Stable mode-locking operations with the center wavelength around 1950–1980 nm can be achieved by using the nonlinear polarization rotation structure and properly designing the dispersion management component. Conventional soliton is firstly obtained with a total anomalous dispersion cavity. Due to the contribution of commercial ultra-high numerical aperture fibers, net dispersion is reduced to -0.077 ps2. So that stretched pulse with 19.4 nm optical bandwidth is obtained and the de-chirped pulse-width can reach 312 fs using extra-cavity compression. Under pump power greater than 890 mW, stretched pulse can evolve into noise-like pulse with 41.3 nm bandwidth. The envelope and peak of such broadband pulse can be compressed with up to 2.2 ps and 145 fs, respectively. The single pulse energy of largely chirped stretched and noise-like pulse can reach 1.785 nJ and 1.53 nJ, respectively. Furthermore, extra-cavity compression can also contribute to a significant increase of peak power.
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Opto-Electronic Advances is the open-access journal providing rapid publication for peer-reviewed articles that emphasize scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and opto-electronics.
Observation and optimization of 2 μm mode-locked pulses in all-fiber net anomalous dispersion laser cavity
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Correspondence: wangts@cust.edu.cn
First published at:Nov 27, 2020
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the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61975021), the Science and Technology Project of Jilin Province (20170414041GH), the Research Project of Jilin Provincial Education Department (JJKH20181090KJ)
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Ma W Z, Zhao D S, Liu R M, Wang T S, Yuan Q et al. Observation and optimization of 2 μm mode-locked pulses in all-fiber net anomalous dispersion laser cavity. Opto-Electron Adv 3, 200001 (2020).
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