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 $-0.098\,\,\mathrm {ps^{2}}$ up to $+ 0.067\,\,\mathrm {ps^{2}}$ and above at the wavelength of $1~\mu \text{m}$ . 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.

Keywords

• All-fiber lasers
• chirped fiber Bragg grating
• dispersion management
• dissipative solitons
• mode-locking
• nonlinear optical loop mirror