Title :
Development of femtosecond thulium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser oscillators
Author :
Nomura, Yutaka ; Nishio, Masatoshi ; Kawato, Sakae ; Fuji, Takao
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Mol. Sci., Okazaki, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a mode-locked fiber laser system using thulium-doped ZBLAN fibers. Very low dispersion of ZBLAN glass fibers enabled generation of pulses with the duration of 45 fs at 1900 nm.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; barium compounds; fibre lasers; glass fibres; lanthanum compounds; optical pulse generation; sodium compounds; thulium; zirconium compounds; ZBLAN glass fiber dispersion; ZBLAN:Tm; femtosecond thulium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser oscillators; mode-locked fiber laser system; optical pulse generation; time 45 fs; wavelength 1900 nm; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Measurement by laser beam; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
