Abstract

A widely wavelength tunable mode-locked Yb-doped fiber oscillator based on nonlinear amplifier loop mirror (NALM) is reported, in which only a piece of short (∼0.5 m) single-mode polarization-maintaining (PM) Yb-doped fiber is employed, instead of the frequently used long (a few meters) double cladding (DC) fiber in previous papers. Experimentally, the center wavelength can be consecutively tuned from 1015 to 1105 nm by tilting the silver mirror, corresponding to a tuning range of 90 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the broadest consecutive tuning range in Yb:fiber mode-locked fiber oscillator. In addition, the mechanism of wavelength tuning is tentatively analyzed and attributed to the combined action of the spatial dispersion induced by a tilting silver mirror and the limited aperture in the system. Specific to the wavelength of 1045 nm, the output pulses with 13-nm spectral bandwidth can be compressed to 154 fs.

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