2 μm mode-locked thulium doped fiber laser using tilted fiber grating

Yong Liu, Jianfeng Li, Zhijun Yan, Zhuo Li, Lin Zhang

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Abstract

A nonlinear polarization rotation based all-fiber passively mode-locked Tm3+-doped fiber laser is demonstrated by using a 45° tilted fiber grating (TFG) as an in-line polarizer. Stable soliton pulses centered at 1992.7 nm with 2.02 nm FWHM bandwidth were produced at a repetition rate of 1.902 MHz with pulse duration of 2.2 ps and pulse energy of 74.6 pJ. With the increased pump power, the laser also can operate at noise-like regime with 18.1 nm FWHM bandwidth and pulse energy of up to 250.1 nJ. Using the same 45° TFG, both stable soliton and noise-like mode-locking centered at ∼1970 nm and ∼2050 nm, were also achieved by shortening and extending the length of Tm3+-doped fiber, respectively, exhibiting advantages of broadband and low insertion loss at 2 μm band.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICOCN 2015 - 14th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)978-1-4673-7373-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Aug 2015
Event14th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks - Nanjing, China
Duration: 3 Jul 20155 Jul 2015

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
Abbreviated titleICOCN 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period3/07/155/07/15

Keywords

  • mode-locked
  • tilted fiber grating
  • Tm-doped fiber laser

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