All-Optical High-Precision Repetition Rate Locking of an Yb-Doped Fiber Laser

Author

Kangwen Yang ; Qiang Hao ; Heping Zeng

Author_Institution

Eng. Res. Center of Opt. Instrum. & Syst., Univ. of Shanghai for Sci. & Technol., Shanghai, China

Volume

27

Issue

8

fYear

2015

fDate

April15, 15 2015

Firstpage

852

Lastpage

855

Abstract

We demonstrated an all-optical stabilization of the repetition rate in an all-fiber picosecond fiber laser. An active Er-doped fiber was added in the Yb-doped fiber cavity as an optical length modulator via refractive index change with optical pumping at 976 nm to achieve repetition rate stabilization. The standard deviation of the residual fluctuation was 1.39 mHz in a 1 h measurement with a linewidth and phase noise of 1.6 mHz and 0.55 rad, respectively.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser stability; optical modulation; optical pumping; phase noise; refractive index; spectral line breadth; ytterbium; all-fiber picosecond fiber laser; all-optical high-precision repetition rate locking; frequency 1.39 mHz; frequency 1.6 mHz; linewidth; optical length modulator; optical pumping; phase noise; refractive index change; time 1 h; wavelength 976 nm; ytterbium-doped fiber cavity; ytterbium-doped fiber laser; Fiber lasers; Laser stability; Measurement by laser beam; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Pump lasers; Laser stability; Optical fiber applications; Optical pumping; optical fiber applications; optical pumping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2015.2398031

Filename

7029040