Abstract

We report on an all-fiber oscillator followed by an all-fiber amplifier to produce as short as 382 fs laser pulses with up to 0.9 W average power. The oscillator is an all-normal-dispersion all-fiber dissipative soliton laser operating at 1030 nm, and operating in dissipative soliton mode. The amplifier stage is mainly based on a double-cladding 20 μm radius ytterbium-doped fiber pumped by an up to 2.5 W CW laser source. The optical-to-optical conversion amplifier efficiency is around 40%. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an all-fiber mode-locked fiber laser oscillator amplified by an all-fiber amplifier.

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2016 (2)

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “Generalized analytical model for dissipative soliton in all normal dispersion modelocked fiber laser,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22, 25–33 (2016).
[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

2014 (2)

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[Crossref]

2009 (2)

P. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Ozgoren, I. L. Budunoglu, and F. O. Ilday, “All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15, 145–152 (2009).
[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

2003 (2)

2000 (1)

Abdelalim, M. A.

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “Generalized analytical model for dissipative soliton in all normal dispersion modelocked fiber laser,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22, 25–33 (2016).
[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

M. A. Abdelalim, Y. Logvin, D. A. Khalil, and H. Anis, “Properties and stability limits of an optimized mode-locked Yb-doped femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Express 17, 2264–2279 (2009).
[Crossref]

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G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic, 2013), Chap. 4.

Anis, H.

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “Generalized analytical model for dissipative soliton in all normal dispersion modelocked fiber laser,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22, 25–33 (2016).
[Crossref]

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “An efficient semi-vectorial model for all-fiber mode-locked femtosecond lasers based on nonlinear polarization rotation,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 20, 416–424 (2014).
[Crossref]

M. A. Abdelalim, Y. Logvin, D. A. Khalil, and H. Anis, “Properties and stability limits of an optimized mode-locked Yb-doped femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Express 17, 2264–2279 (2009).
[Crossref]

Budunoglu, I. L.

P. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Ozgoren, I. L. Budunoglu, and F. O. Ilday, “All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15, 145–152 (2009).
[Crossref]

Clarkson, W. A.

D. J. Richardson, J. Nilsson, and W. A. Clarkson, “High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 27, B63–B92 (2010).
[Crossref]

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Feng, Y.

Fuchs, H.-J.

Goldberg, L.

Hu, J.

Ilday, F. O.

P. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Ozgoren, I. L. Budunoglu, and F. O. Ilday, “All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15, 145–152 (2009).
[Crossref]

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H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “Generalized analytical model for dissipative soliton in all normal dispersion modelocked fiber laser,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22, 25–33 (2016).
[Crossref]

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “An efficient semi-vectorial model for all-fiber mode-locked femtosecond lasers based on nonlinear polarization rotation,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 20, 416–424 (2014).
[Crossref]

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P. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Ozgoren, I. L. Budunoglu, and F. O. Ilday, “All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15, 145–152 (2009).
[Crossref]

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Ozgoren, K.

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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Röser, F.

Rothhard, J.

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Shah, A. S. L.

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Tünnermann, A.

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Xiao, H.

Xu, Z.

Zellmer, H.

Zhang, L.

Zhou, P.

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IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. (3)

P. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Ozgoren, I. L. Budunoglu, and F. O. Ilday, “All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15, 145–152 (2009).
[Crossref]

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “An efficient semi-vectorial model for all-fiber mode-locked femtosecond lasers based on nonlinear polarization rotation,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 20, 416–424 (2014).
[Crossref]

H. E. Kotb, M. A. Abdelalim, and H. Anis, “Generalized analytical model for dissipative soliton in all normal dispersion modelocked fiber laser,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22, 25–33 (2016).
[Crossref]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. (1)

D. J. Richardson, J. Nilsson, and W. A. Clarkson, “High power fiber lasers: current status and future perspectives,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 27, B63–B92 (2010).
[Crossref]

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Opt. Lett. (4)

Other (1)

G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic, 2013), Chap. 4.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of the experimental laser oscillator: SM-LD, single-mode laser diode; WDM, wavelength division multiplexer; Yb, ytterbium fiber; PC, polarization controller; PBS, polarization beam splitter; SF, spectral filter; MM-LD, multimode laser diode; DC-MPC, double-cladding multimode pump signal combiner; DC-Yb, double-cladding ytterbium fiber; OSC, oscilloscope; OSA, optical spectrum analyzer; AC, autocorrelator.

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Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. PBS output: (a) train of output pulses (the inset shows a zoom of a pulse to verify single-pulse operation), and (b) the pulse spectrum.

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Fig. 3.
Fig. 3. Output of the oscillator coupler after the isolator and before the amplifier stage: (a) AC temporal chirped pulse profile and (b) pulse spectrum.

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Fig. 4.
Fig. 4. Output SPD of the amplifier (2.4 m Yb) at different amplifier pump power levels: (a) SPD including the pump wavelength and (b) pulse SPD showing the spectrum widening with increasing pump power.

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Fig. 5.
Fig. 5. Output power and pulse width at different pump power.

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Fig. 6.
Fig. 6. Output pulse of Yb-doped fiber: (a) temporal profile at different pump power and (b) no pump spectrum.

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Fig. 7.
Fig. 7. Autocorrelation pulse profile (a) at 2.5 W pump power and (b) at 3 W pump power and up, showing shoulder oscillations.

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Fig. 8.
Fig. 8. Compressed pulse width versus anomalous dispersion at different pump powers.

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Fig. 9.
Fig. 9. Shortest compressed pulse width in femtosecond versus pump power in watts at −24,680  fs2 anomalous dispersion.

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Fig. 10.
Fig. 10. Spectra of compressed pulses at different pump levels: (a) the pump spectrum is included and (b) zoomed-in pulse spectra.

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