A mode-locked fiber laser generating high purity cylindrical vector beams based on a mode selective coupler in a figure-8 cavity

Jie Wang, Hongdan Wan*, Yu Cai, Zuxing Zhang, Bing Sun, Lin Zhang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate an all-fiber passively mode-locked laser with pulsed cylindrical vector beam output based on a mode selective coupler (MSC) in a figure-8 cavity, The MSC made of a two mode fiber and a standard single mode fiber is used as both the intracavity transverse mode converter and mode splitter. Through adjusting the polarization state in the laser cavity, both radially and azimuthally polarized beams have been obtained with high mode purity which are measured to be > 94%. The mode-locked laser pulses have duration of 17 ns and a repetition rate of 0.66 MHz, operating near a wavelength of 1556.3 nm with a spectral bandwidth of 3.2 nm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICOCN 2017 - 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
PublisherIEEE
Pages1-3
Number of pages3
Volume2017-January
ISBN (Electronic)9781538632734
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 1 Dec 2017
Event16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2017 - Wuzhen, China
Duration: 7 Aug 201710 Aug 2017

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuzhen
Period7/08/1710/08/17

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Funding: National Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Nos. BK20150858,
BK20161521), the Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province (No. 2015-XCL-023), the Talents Projects in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
(Nos. NY214002, NY215002).

Keywords

  • Fiber
  • Lasers
  • Mode-locked lasers
  • Pulsed

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