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Fiber taper for dispersion management in a mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser
Matei Rusu1, Robert Herda, Samuli Kivistö
1Optoelectronics Research Center, Tampere University of Technology, P. O. Box 692, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland. matei.rusu@tut.fi
Optics Letters
|July 13, 2006
Abstract:
We exploit the large anomalous dispersion in the waist of a fiber taper to offset the intracavity normal chromatic dispersion of an Yb-doped fiber laser. The fiber taper provides sufficient anomalous dispersion to ensure soliton operation of the mode-locked laser. With the taper removed from the cavity, the laser operates in a net normal dispersion regime.
