All Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Laser for Femtosecond Pulse Generation at NTSC
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhang, Pan; Zhang, Yanyan; Yan, Lulu; Rao, Bingjie; Quan, Honglei; Zhang, Shougang; Jiang, Haifeng
- Source
- 2019 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF/IFC) Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF/IFC), 2019 Joint Conference of the IEEE International. :1-3 Apr, 2019
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Laser mode locking
Laser noise
Optical fiber polarization
Ultrafast optics
Masers
Fiber lasers
Laser theory
Mode-locked fiber laser
Femtosecond pulse
Optical frequency comb
- Language
- ISSN
- 2327-1949
We report on a robust mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser based on a nonlinear optical mirror with all polarization-maintaining fibers. Stable and self-starting operation is obtained by exploiting an integrated nonreciprocal device biases $\pi$/2 phase shift. In the single-pulse region, the laser directly generates output power of 3.15 mW at repetition rate of 87.7 MHz, corresponding to the pulse energy of 37 pJ. The center wavelength is 1585 nm with the spectral bandwidth of 25 nm at the maximum output power. We also evaluate the relative intensity noise of the mode-locking laser.