Photonics (Apr 2024)

Similariton-like Pulse Evolution in an Er-Doped Fiber Laser with Hybrid Mode Locking

  • Aleksander Y. Fedorenko,
  • Almikdad Ismaeel,
  • Ilya O. Orekhov,
  • Dmitriy A. Dvoretskiy,
  • Stanislav G. Sazonkin,
  • Lev K. Denisov,
  • Valeriy E. Karasik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11040387
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 4
p. 387

Abstract

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An Er-doped all-fiber ultrashort pulse laser with positive total net-cavity group-velocity dispersion is demonstrated based on a hybrid mode-locking mechanism ensured by single-walled carbon–boron–nitrogen nanotubes with coaction of the nonlinear polarization evolution effect. The generation regime with a similariton-like spectrum is obtained. The spectrum width is ~31.5 nm, and the minimal pulse duration is ~294 fs at full width at half maximum. The average output power is ~3.2 mW, corresponding to 0.376 nJ pulse energy and 1.25 kW peak power. The fundamental pulse repetition rate is ~8.5 MHz, with a signal-to-noise ratio of 60 dB. The standard deviation of average output optical power stability, measured for 12 h, is about ~1% RMS, and the maximum level of relative intensity noise (RIN) does not exceed <−120 dBc/Hz in the 30 Hz–1 MHz frequency range. To prove the similariton-like regime generation, we also studied numerically and experimentally the pulse evolution during propagation through a laser resonator and output single-mode fiber with anomalous dispersion.

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