Abstract

We demonstrate a wavelength-tunable, sub-200 fs, and watt-level thulium-doped ultrafast fiber oscillator with a fundamental frequency repetition rate of 509.7 MHz. The wavelength can be tuned between 1918.5 nm and 2031 nm by adjusting the intra-cavity waveplates. When the wavelength is tuned to below 2000 nm, the average output power exceeds 1 W. The oscillator provides a maximum average power of 1.314 W (corresponding to a pulse energy of 2.58 nJ) and a highest peak power of 12.5 kW at 1940 nm. Such a high-power, tunable 2-µm mode-locked fiber laser is an ideal light source candidate for a variety of applications, such as frequency metrology, molecular spectroscopy, and ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy.

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