High-Energy Passive Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers
Abstract
Mode-locking refers to the generation of ultrashort optical pulses in laser systems. A comprehensive study of achieving high-energy pulses in a ring cavity fiber laser that is passively mode-locked by a series of waveplates and a polarizer is presented in this paper. Specifically, it is shown that the multipulsing instability can be circumvented in favor of bifurcating to higher-energy single pulses by appropriately adjusting the group velocity dispersion in the fiber and the waveplate/polarizer settings in the saturable absorber. The findings may be used as practical guidelines for designing high-power lasers since the theoretical model relates directly to the experimental settings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 10.1155/2012/354156
Entities
People
- Edwin Ding
- Eli Shlizerman
- Frank W Wise
- J. Nathan Kutz
- Philippe Grelu
- William H. Renninger
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Azusa Pacific University
- Cornell University
- University of Burgundy
- University of Washington