• DocumentCode
    3128109
  • Title

    Femtosecond Soliton Mode-Locked Laser Based on Ytterbium-Doped Photonic Bandgap Fiber

  • Author

    Isomaki, A. ; Okhotnikov, O.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Oct. 2006
  • Firstpage
    394
  • Lastpage
    395
  • Abstract
    Here we report on the first demonstration of a mode-locked laser using an ytterbium-doped photonic bandgap (Yb-PBG) fiber as the gain medium and a dispersion compensator. We show that using semiconductor saturable absorber mirror together with the Yb-PBG fiber allows for self-starting mode-locked laser around 1-mum wavelength range
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser mode locking; mirrors; optical fibre dispersion; optical materials; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; photonic band gap; ytterbium; 1 micron; Yb-PBG fiber; dispersion compensator; femtosecond soliton mode-locked laser; gain medium; self-starting mode-locked laser; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; ytterbium-doped photonic bandgap fiber; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Photonic bandgap fibers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2006.279166
  • Filename
    4054223