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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
Experimental and numerical studies of mode-locked fiber laser with large normal and anomalous dispersion
Lei Zhang1, A R El-Damak, Yan Feng
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser and Application, and Shanghai Institute of Optics and fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qinghe Road 390, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China.
Abstract:
An ytterbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser was demonstrated with a chirped fiber Bragg grating for dispersion management. The cavity net dispersion could be changed from large normal dispersion (2.4 ps(2)) to large anomalous dispersion (-2.0 ps(2)), depending on the direction of the chirped Bragg grating in laser cavity. The proposed fiber lasers with large normal dispersion generated stable pulses with a pulse width of <1.1 ns and a pulse energy of 1.5 nJ. The laser with large anomalous dispersion generated wavelength-tunable soliton with a pulse width of 2.7 ps and pulse energy of 0.13 nJ. A theoretical model was established and used to verify the experimental observations.
