Title :
Environmentally-stable femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with birefringent photonic bandgap fiber
Author :
Lim, H. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate for the first time an environmentally-stable, passively mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser with a birefringent hollow-core fiber for polarization and dispersion control. The laser generates 1-nJ pulses, which are dechirped to 70 fs.
Keywords :
birefringence; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical materials; optical pulse generation; photonic band gap; ytterbium; 1 nJ; birefringent hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber; environmentally-stable passive mode-locked fiber laser; femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser; optical dispersion control; optical fibre polarization; optical pulse generation; Birefringence; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Photonic bandgap fibers; Ultrafast optics; Ytterbium;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202054
