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Low-cost Custom Fabrication and Mode-locked Operation of an All-normal-dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Laser for Multiphoton Microscopy
Published on: November 22, 2019
Starting dynamics of dissipative-soliton fiber laser
Heng Li1, Dimitre G Ouzounov, Frank W Wise
1Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education (CLASSE), Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. hl344@cornell.edu
Abstract:
We study the starting dynamics of an all-normal-dispersion Yb-doped fiber laser experimentally and compare them to an existing stochastic model of starting from quantum noise. The laser reaches mode locking 10 to 100 times faster than a soliton laser with similar parameters. According to the model, the fast starting can be attributed to the large pulse energy in the normal-dispersion laser. We also report direct observations of starting from relaxation oscillations and discuss that process in light of the theory.
