Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 47, Issue 11, 200040(2020)

Mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser based on mode coupler

Yao Han, Shi Fan, Huang Yiping, Wang Teng, and Zeng Xianglong*
Author Affiliations
  • [in Chinese]
  • show less

    We demonstrate a mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser (YDFL) that enables fiber high-order mode (HOM) oscillation inside the ring cavity, by using a pair of mode selective couplers (MSCs) as an effective mode converter, the optical fiber HOM is obtained. The central wavelength of MSC is located at 1064 nm, which can achieve 80 nm mode conversion bandwidth and 94% high-order mode purity. A mode-locked pulsed fiber laser with a 3 dB spectral width of 7.4 nm, a pulse repetition frequency of 10.9 MHz, and a radio frequency signal-to-noise ratio of 55 dB is obtained, and the slope efficiency of the output power is 2.3%. These results show that the HOM can be directly oscillated by the cascaded MSCs in the fiber laser and participated in the mode-locking process to obtain a pulsed HOM laser.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Yao Han, Shi Fan, Huang Yiping, Wang Teng, Zeng Xianglong. Mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser based on mode coupler[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2020, 47(11): 200040

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 6, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 12, 2021

    The Author Email: Xianglong Zeng (zenglong@shu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2020.200040

    Topics