Impact of the order of cavity elements in all-normal dispersion ring fiber lasers

O.V. Shtyrina, I.A. Yarutkina, A. Skidin, M.P. Fedoruk, S.K. Turitsyn

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Abstract

Nonlinearity plays a critical role in the intra-cavity dynamics of high-pulse energy fiber lasers. Management of the intra-cavity nonlinear dynamics is the key to increase the output pulse energy in such laser systems. Here, we examine the impact of the order of the intra-cavity elements on the energy of generated pulses in the all-normal dispersion mode-locked ring fiber laser cavity. In mathematical terms, the nonlinear light dynamics in resonator makes operators corresponding to the action of laser elements (active and passive fiber, out-coupler, saturable absorber) non-commuting and the order of their appearance in a cavity important. For the simple design of all-normal dispersion ring fiber laser with varying cavity length, we found the order of the cavity elements, leading to maximum output pulse energy.

Original languageEnglish
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume7
Issue number2
Early online date16 Mar 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2015

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Funding: Russian Science Foundation under Grant 14-21-00110. Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Grant 14.B25.31.0003 and ERC project ULTRALASER.

Keywords

  • fiber lasers
  • ring lasers

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