Studying the operation of an all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser oscillator at negative and positive net cavity dispersion

Abstract

Chirped fiber Bragg gratings in Yb-doped fiber lasers allow tuning the net cavity dispersion, thus enabling access to pulse dynamics beyond the typical all-normal-dispersion dissipative soliton regime. This Letter demonstrates an ultrafast dispersion-managed all-polarization-maintaining fiber oscillator mode-locked with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. Using a chirped fiber Bragg grating inside the oscillator, it can work at net cavity dispersion in the range from -0.098 ps${}^2$ up to +0.067 ps${}^2$ and above at the wavelength of 1 $\mu$m. Depending on the configuration, the system can deliver stable pulses with energies up to 2.3 nJ and pulse durations as short as 98 fs.

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• Dispersion management of a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror-based Erbium-doped fiber laser
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Cited by in corpus (1)

• Semi-linear all-polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber laser oscillator manifesting dual operation regime at net anomalous dispersion