Title :
Passively mode-locked 900 nm picosecond fiber laser
Author :
Guina, M.D. ; Rusu, Matei ; Karirinne, S. ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G. ; Grudinin, Anatoly B.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Abstract :
We demonstrate a Nd-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked with semiconductor saturable absorber in the 894-909 nm spectral range. Self-started operation has been achieved in soliton-supporting dispersion regime, generating 360-fs pulses, and in stretched-pulse mode-locking regime.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; 360 fs; 894 to 909 nm; Nd-doped fiber laser; fiber laser; optical pulse generation; passively mode-locked laser; picosecond laser; self-started operation; semiconductor saturable absorber; soliton-supporting dispersion regime; stretched-pulse mode-locking regime;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
