Nd:glass fiber lasers operating in the solitary and the stretched pulse regime

Author

Leitner, M. ; Glas, P. ; Wrage, M. ; Hey, R. ; Daweritz, L.

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Institut fur Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

323

Abstract

Summary form only given. The combination of a fiber laser and a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) makes it possible to realize self starting, stable femtosecond pulse sources. The pulse formation process is maintained by the balance of the dispersion and the self phase modulation. In this work we compare the two operation regimes, the solitary and the stretched pulse regime of cladding pumped Nd:glass fiber lasers with different fiber lengths.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; neodymium; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; self-phase modulation; Nd:glass fiber lasers; cladding pumped fiber lasers; excitonic absorption resonance; pulse formation process; self phase modulation; self starting sources; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; solitary regime; stable femtosecond pulse sources; stretched pulse regime; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947864

Filename

947864