All-fiber saturable absorber based on nonlinear multimode interference with enhanced modulation depth
All-fiber saturable absorber based on nonlinear multimode interference with enhanced modulation depth
We experimentally demonstrate a passively mode-locked fiber ring laser using a small-core fiber-graded index multimode fiber-single-mode fiber (SCF-GIMMF-SMF) structure as an effective saturable absorber based on the nonlinear multimode interference (NL-MMI) effect. A small-core fiber is used as an input single-mode fiber to improve the coupling of power into higher-order modes in a multimode fiber and to enhance the modulation depth of the structure. Stable fundamental mode-locked operation is obtained at a pump threshold of 166mWand the output soliton pulses have a 647 fs duration at 1557.96 nm with a 5.2 nm spectral width at a repetition rate of 19.37 MHz. This NL-MMI SA can be applied to high-power mode-locked fiber lasers owing to its inherent high damage threshold, compact size, wavelength independent operation, and fabrication simplicity.
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Wang, Teng
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Jung, Yongmin
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Horak, Peter
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Zeng, Xianglong
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Richardson, David
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4 October 2021
Wang, Teng
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Jung, Yongmin
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Horak, Peter
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Zeng, Xianglong
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Richardson, David
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Wang, Teng, Jung, Yongmin, Horak, Peter, Zeng, Xianglong and Richardson, David
(2021)
All-fiber saturable absorber based on nonlinear multimode interference with enhanced modulation depth.
Applied Optics, 60 (29), .
(doi:10.1364/AO.432051).
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate a passively mode-locked fiber ring laser using a small-core fiber-graded index multimode fiber-single-mode fiber (SCF-GIMMF-SMF) structure as an effective saturable absorber based on the nonlinear multimode interference (NL-MMI) effect. A small-core fiber is used as an input single-mode fiber to improve the coupling of power into higher-order modes in a multimode fiber and to enhance the modulation depth of the structure. Stable fundamental mode-locked operation is obtained at a pump threshold of 166mWand the output soliton pulses have a 647 fs duration at 1557.96 nm with a 5.2 nm spectral width at a repetition rate of 19.37 MHz. This NL-MMI SA can be applied to high-power mode-locked fiber lasers owing to its inherent high damage threshold, compact size, wavelength independent operation, and fabrication simplicity.
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Submitted date: 2021
Accepted/In Press date: 13 September 2021
Published date: 4 October 2021
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Acknowledgment. Xianglong Zeng acknowledges the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning. Teng Wang thanks the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for financial support.
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Funding. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N00762X/1, EP/P030181/1); National Natural Science Foundation of China (91750108); China Scholarship Council (201906890078).
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