基于非线性管理的类噪声掺铒锁模光纤激光器

报道了一种基于非线性光纤的宽光谱类噪声锁模掺铒光纤激光器。在非线性偏振旋转锁模掺铒光纤激光谐振腔内引入色散补偿光纤和高非线性光纤,实现腔内色散和非线性管理,最终获得稳定的锁模脉冲输出。当在谐振腔内引入6 cm高非线性光纤时,可以获得中心波长为1534 nm,脉冲宽度为1.9 ps,重复频率为20.1 MHz,40 dB光谱带宽约为100 nm的超短脉冲输出。在此基础上,将高非线性光纤长度增加至30 cm时,通过优化波片角度,观察到稳定的类噪声锁模脉冲输出,其输出光谱覆盖范围为1280~1850 nm,40 dB带宽为500 nm,尖峰脉冲宽度短至70.9 fs,基座脉冲宽度为26.6 ps,重复频率约19.7 MHz。同时在实验中发现随着泵浦功率的提高,类噪声脉冲的基座脉宽和尖峰脉宽的演化呈相反趋势,光谱覆盖范围更宽。该类噪声锁模光纤激光器的研究对低相干光谱干涉技术的发展具有重要意义。

Switchable single-and dual-wavelength femtosecond mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on carboxyl-functionalized graphene oxide saturable absorber

In this Letter, we demonstrated the switchable single-and dual-wavelength femtosecond soliton generation in single-mode Er-doped fiber lasers with the usage of carboxyl-functionalized graphene oxide(GO-COOH) saturable absorbers(SAs) for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The fiber laser generated a stable single-wavelength conventional soliton at 1560.1 nm with a pulse duration of 548.1 fs. The dual-wavelength solitons centered at 1531.9 nm and 1555.2 nm with a spacing of approximately 23 nm can be obtained by adjusting the pump power of the cavity. Our experimental results indicated the GO-COOH has great potential to be used in ultrafast fiber lasers as broadband SAs.