Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 36, Issue s1, 56(2009)
Experimental Study on the Nonlinear Polarization Rotation Mode-Locking Fiber Laser
A passively mode-locked fiber ring cavity laser with a small segment of Er3+/Yb3+co-doped fiber as gain medium, pumped by stable 976 nm laser diode and mode-locked by the nonlinear polarization rotation technique, experimentally demonstrated. By adjusting the polarization controllers orientation and pump power, the stable operations of continual fundamental wave mode-locked with the repetition rate of 15.90 MHz and the spectral bandwidth of 7.4 nm, Q-switched-mode-locked with the spectral bandwidth of 4.84 nm, passive Q-switched with the repetition rate of 147.06 kHz and the spectral bandwidth of 1.8 nm, high-order harmonically mode-locked regimes in a ring cavity Er3+/Yb3+co-doped fiber laser have been obtained experimentally. Compared with Er3+ fiber as gain medium, the experiment accomplished by using Er3+/Yb3+co-doped fiber as gain medium shows a better output of mode-locking.
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Ren Fang, Xiang Wanghua, Bai Yangbo, Li Nan, Shi Xiaozhou. Experimental Study on the Nonlinear Polarization Rotation Mode-Locking Fiber Laser[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2009, 36(s1): 56