Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 8, 20210779(2022)

Noise of high-order harmonic mode-locked femtosecond Yb fiber laser

Hanze Bai1,2, Yifeng Zhong1,3, Chiming Ren1, Junjie Huang1, Jindong Tian2, Deping Xiong3, and Jinghua Sun1
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electronic Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China
  • 2College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 3School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • show less

    Femtosecond lasers with high repetition rates play important roles in advanced manufacturing, such as high-speed laser ranging and three-dimensional imaging. Among them, high-order harmonic mode-locking based on femtosecond fiber lasers is one of the important methods to obtain high repetition rates above GHz. Based on a nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) mode-locked Ytterbium (Yb) fiber laser with dispersion compensation from intra-cavity grating, a stable 143 MHz fundamental frequency mode-locked pulse sequence was obtained when the pump light was 180 mW. When the pump power was increased to 1 W, the highest 20th harmonic (2.86 GHz) mode-locked pulse train was obtained. The Allen deviation and phase noise of the output pulse repetition rates of the Yb fiber laser were studied systematically when it was running at high harmonic mode-locking and fundamental mode-locking respectively. The repetition frequency locking accuracy can be maintained at a stability of 10-13 Hz@1 s in the 7th harmonic mode locking state. This study provides an experimental basis for high harmonic mode-locked femtosecond laser pulse sequence to be used for precise measurement.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Hanze Bai, Yifeng Zhong, Chiming Ren, Junjie Huang, Jindong Tian, Deping Xiong, Jinghua Sun. Noise of high-order harmonic mode-locked femtosecond Yb fiber laser[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(8): 20210779

    Download Citation

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

    Category: Lasers & Laser optics

    Received: Dec. 10, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 9, 2023

    The Author Email:

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20210779

    Topics