Erbium-Doped Zirconia-Alumina Silica Glass-Based Fiber as a Saturable Absorber for High Repetition Rate Q-Switched All-Fiber Laser Generation

We propose and demonstrate a Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser （EDFL） using an erbium-doped zirconia-alumina silica glass-based fiber （Zr-EDF） as a saturable absorber. As a 16-cm-long Zr-EDF is incorporated into a ring EDFL cavity, a stable Q-switching pulse train operating at 1565？nm wavelength is successfully obtained. The repetition rate is tunable from 33.97？kHz to 71.23？kHz by increasing the pump power from the threshold of 26？mW to the maximum of 74？mW. The highest pulse energy of 26.67？nJ is obtained at the maximum pump power.

A kW Continuous-Wave Ytterbium-Doped All-Fiber Laser Oscillator with Domestic Fiber Components and Gain Fiber

We demonstrate a kW continuous-wave ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser oscillator with M1 domestic fiber compo- nents： a 7× I fused fiber bundle combiner, a fiber Bragg grating and a double-clad gain fiber. The oscillator operates at 1079.48nrn with 80.94% slope efficiency and shows no limit of temperature and nonlinear effects. These indicate that the passive fiber components and the gain fiber are all qualified for the high power environ- ment. No evidence of the signal power roll-over shows that this oscillator possesses the capacity to higher output with available pump power.

Sequential generation of self-starting diverse operations in all-fiber laser based on thulium-doped fiber saturable absorber

Self-starting Q-switching,Q-switched mode-locking and mode-locking operation modes are achieved sequentially in an all-fiber erbium-doped fiber laser with thulium-doped fiber saturable absorber for the first time.The central wavelengths of Q-switching,Q-switched mode-locking and mode-locking operation modes are 1569.7 nm,1570.9 nm,and 1572 nm,respectively.The mode-locking operation of the proposed fiber laser generates stable dark soliton with a repetition rate of 0.99 MHz and signal-to-noise ratio of 65 dB.The results validate the capability of generating soliton pulse by doped fiber saturable absorber.Furthermore,the proposed fiber laser is beneficial to the applications of optical communication and signal processing system.

All-fiber laser seeded femtosecond Yb:KGW solid state regenerative amplifier

A high efficiency compact Yb:KGW regenerative amplifier using an all-fiber laser seed source was comprehensively studied.With thermal lensing effect compensated by the cavity design,the compressed pulses with energy of 1 mJ at 1 kHz and 0.4 mJ at 10 kHz in sub-400-fs pulse duration using chirped fiber Bragg grating(CFBG)stretcher were demonstrated.A modified Frantz-Nodvik equation was developed to emulate the dynamic behavior of the regenerative amplifier.The simulation results were in good agreement with the experiment.Numerical simulations and experimental results show that the scheme can be scalable to higher energy of multi-mJ,sub-300 fs pulses.

Two-dimensionally controllable DSR generation from dumbbell-shaped mode-locked all-fiber laser

An all-fiber dumbbell-shaped dual-amplifier mode-locked Er-doped laser that can function in dissipative soliton resonance(DSR)regime is demonstrated.A nonlinear optical loop mirror(NOLM)and a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror(NALM)are employed to initiate the mode-locking pulses.Unlike conventional single-amplifier structure,the output peak power of which remains unchanged when pump power is varied,the proposed structure allows its output peak power to be tuned by changing the pump power of the two amplifiers while the pulse duration is directly determined by the amplifier of nonlinear amplifying loop mirror.The entire distribution maps of peak power and pulse duration clearly demonstrate that the two amplifiers are related to each other,and they supply directly a guideline for designing tunable peak power DSR fiber laser.Pulse width can change from 800 ps to 2.6 ns and peak power varies from 13 W to 27 W.To the best of our knowledge,the peak power tunable DSR pulse is observed for the first time in dumbbell-shaped Er-doped all-fiber mode-locked lasers.

A Four-Wavelength All-Fiber Laser for Wavelength Division Multiplexing System

A novel four-wavelength all-fiber laser based on fiber Bragg gratings is presented.The four wavelengths are 1555.8,1556.6,1557.4 and 1558.2 nm,respectively.Each output laser is<0.3 nm in line-width and>1 mW in power.The suppression ratio between adjacent wavelengths is>30 dB.The laser was applied in a wavelength division multiplexing(WDM)system and the 100 km transmission of 1.2 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero code,1.2 Gb/s return-to-zero code,2.5 GHz analogue signal and 5 GHz analogue signal was realized with it.

Q-switched giant pulsed erbium-doped all-fiber laser with V_(2)ZnC MAX phase saturable absorber

MXenes,drawn from MAX phases,are special two-dimensional substances with numerous advantages in nonlinear optics,specifically in giant and ultrashort pulsed-laser applications.Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)and Ti_(2)CT_(x)nanosheets however rapidly deteriorate under ambient conditions,limiting their applications.This paper demonstrates how excellent modulation depth of one of the MAX phase compounds vanadium zinc carbide(V_2ZnC)makes it a brilliant saturable absorber(SA)in passively Q-switched all-fiber pulsed lasers,integrated such that a 16.73-μm V_(2)ZnC-polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)thin film acts as SA in the laser.Saturable and non-saturable absorptions were found to be 13.2%and 10.47%,while saturation optical intensity and modulation depth were 6.25 k W/cm^(2)and 12.43%,respectively,illustrating the optical nonlinearity.The superiority of MAX-PVA,fabricated in four distinct ratios,was demonstrated by the fact that it self-starts a giant pulsed laser at pump power as low as 22.5 mW and firmly accomplished 120.6 kHz repetition rate with a pulse width of 2.08μs.It is a fine SA for the use of pulsed-laser production using all-fiber laser due to fabrication simplicity and great optical,thermophysical,and mechanical qualities.

All-fiber laser amplification at 1948 nm based on doublecladding Tm/Al co-doped photonic crystal fiber fabricated by laser additive manufacturing

In this work,we demonstrated the double-cladding Tm/Al co-doped photonic crystal fiber(PCF)by laser additive manufacturing.The measurements show that the fiber was heavily doped with a Tm^(3+)concentration of 2.13%(mass fraction)without any crystallization.The splicing property of PCF was studied,and the integrity of the PCF air holes was maintained during the splicing process.The PCF with combiner pigtail has a splice loss of 0.23 d B.The all-fiber Tm/Al co-doped PCF amplifier system achieves a slope efficiency of 13%at 1948 nm with an output laser power of nearly 1.59 W.An upconversion process was also observed under laser excitation with a 1064 nm pulse.This method provides a new idea to deal with Tmdoped PCF fabrication and promotes the promising application of 2μm fiber lasers.

High-energy and high-peak-power GHz burst-mode all-fiber laser with a uniform envelope and tunable intra-burst pulses

We report a Yb-doped all-fiber laser system generating burst-mode pulses with high energy and high peak power at a GHz intra-burst repetition rate.To acquire the uniform burst envelope,a double-pre-compensation structure with an arbitrary waveform laser diode driver and an acoustic optical modulator is utilized for the first time.The synchronous pumping is utilized for the system to reduce the burst repetition rate to 100 Hz and suppress the amplified spontaneous emission effect.By adjusting the gain of every stage,uniform envelopes with different output energies can be easily obtained.The intra-burst repetition rate can be tuned from 0.5 to 10 GHz actively modulated by an electro-optic modulator.Optimized by timing control of eight channels of analog signal and amplified by seven stages of Yb-doped fiber amplifier,the pulse energy achieves 13.3 mJ at 0.5 ns intra-burst pulse duration,and the maximum peak power reaches approximately3.6 MW at 48 ps intra-burst pulse duration.To the best of our knowledge,for reported burst-mode all-fiber lasers,this is a record for output energy and peak power with nanosecond-level burst duration,and the widest tuning range of the intra-burst repetition rate.In particular,this flexibly tunable burst-mode laser system can be directly applied to generate high-power frequency-tunable microwaves.

High performance visible generation of Ho^(3+)-doped all-fiber lasers

Direct generation of visible frequency from a compact all-fiber laser while preserving high output characteristics has been a subject of research in laser technology.We investigated the high output performance of all-fiber lasers based on Ho^(3+)-doped ZBLAN fluoride glass fiber especially operating in the deep-red band by pumping at 640 nm.Remarkably,we achieved a maximum continuous-wave output power of 271 m W at 750 nm with a slope efficiency of 45.1%,which represents,to our knowledge,the highest direct output power recorded in an all-fiber laser with a core diameter of less than 10μm in the deep-red band.Additionally,we successfully developed a 1.2μm all-fiber laser pumped by a 640 nm laser.We extensively investigated the correlation between these two-laser generation processes and their performances at 750 nm and 1.2μm wavelengths.By increasing the pumping rate,we observed an efficient recycling of population through a highly excited state absorption process,which effectively returned the population to the upper laser level of the deep-red transition.Moreover,we determined the optimized conditions for such lasers,identified the processes responsible for populating the excited state energy levels,and established the corresponding spectroscopic parameters.

Generation of 12th order harmonic mode-locking in a Nd-doped single-mode all-fiber laser operating at 0.9μm

Based on the Nd-doped single-mode fiber as the gain medium,an all-fiber 12th harmonic mode-locked(HML)laser operating at the 0.9μm waveband was obtained for the first time,to the best of our knowledge.A mandrel with a diameter of 10 mm was employed to introduce bending losses to suppress mode competition at 1.06μm,which resulted in a suppression ratio of up to 54 dB.The 1st–12th order HML pulses with the tunable repetition rate of 494.62 kHz–5.94 MHz were obtained in the mode-locked laser with a center wavelength of∼904 nm.In addition,the laser has an extremely low threshold pump power of 88 mW.To the best of our knowledge,this is the first time that an HML pulse has been achieved in a 0.9μm Nd-doped single-mode all-fiber mode-locked laser with the advantages of low cost,simple structure,and compactness,which could be an ideal light source for two-photon microscopy.

Nonlinear chirped pulse amplification for a 100-W-class GHz femtosecond all-fiber laser system at 1.5μm

In this work,we present a high-power,high-repetition-rate,all-fiber femtosecond laser system operating at 1.5μm.This all-fiber laser system can deliver femtosecond pulses at a fundamental repetition rate of 10.6 GHz with an average output power of 106.4 W–the highest average power reported so far from an all-fiber femtosecond laser at 1.5μm,to the best of our knowledge.By utilizing the soliton-effect-based pulse compression effect with optimized pre-chirping dispersion,the amplified pulses are compressed to 239 fs in an all-fiber configuration.Empowered by such a high-power ultrafast fiber laser system,we further explore the nonlinear interaction among transverse modes LP01,LP11 and LP21 that are expected to potentially exist in fiber laser systems using large-mode-area fibers.The intermodal modulational instability is theoretically investigated and subsequently identified in our experiments.Such a high-power all-fiber ultrafast laser without bulky free-space optics is anticipated to be a promising laser source for applications that specifically require compact and robust operation.

High-power sub-picosecond all-fiber laser source at 1.56 μm

We demonstrate an all-fiber, high-power, and high stability ultrafast laser source operating at 1563 nm. A highly stable, self-starting carbon nanotube（CNT） mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser is used as the seed source. The amplifier stage uses a fiber chirped pulse amplification configuration. The main power amplifier is based on a cladding-pumped Er–Yb co-doped fiber with 10 μm active single-mode core diameter. The laser source provides 3.4 W average output power at 75 MHz repetition rate. The pulses are compressed to 765 fs by a low-loss transmission grating pair. The robust, compact, and high-power 1560 nm fiber laser source can be used for eye surgery and solar cell micromachining.

Dual-wavelength Bi2Se3-based passively Q-switching Nd3+-doped glass all-fiber laser

We demonstrate a dual-wavelength passively Q-switched Nd^（3＋）-doped glass fiber laser using a few-layer topological insulator Bi2Se3 as a saturable absorber（SA） for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The laser resonator is a simple and compact linear cavity using two fiber end-facet mirrors. The SA is fabricated by Bi2Se3/polyvinyl alcohol composite film. By inserting the SA into the laser cavity, a stable Q-switching operation is achieved with the shortest pulse width and maximum pulse repetition rate of 601 ns and 205.2 kHz,respectively. The maximum average output power and maximum pulse energy obtained are about 6.6 mW and 38.8 nJ, respectively.

High-power sub-picosecond all-fiber laser source at 1.56 μm-corrigendum

The authors would like to apologize for some mistakes in the article and wish to make the corrections described below：1） Designate Youjian Song （宋有建） as the corresponding author of this article. His Email address is yjsong^tju.edu.cn.

Er-doped all-fiber laser mode-locked by graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets

Few-layer graphitic carbon nitride （g-C-N-） nanosheets were fabricated and utilized as a saturable absorber for mode-locking in an Er-doped fiber laser with net normal dispersion. Tile g-CaN,-/polyvinyl alcohol （PVA） hybrid-film-based saturable absorber has a modulation depth of 4.01% and a saturation intensity of 7.5 MW/cm2. By integrating g-C3N4-PVA mode-locker into the laser cavity, a mode-locked operation could be obtained. The achieved mode-locking pulse centered at 1530.3 nm has a pulse width of 530 ps. Its repetition rate is 40.8 MHz, and the corresponding signal-to-noise ratio is about 55 dB.

Fabrication of Tm-Doped Fibers for High Power and 121W Output All-Fiber Tm-Doped Fiber Laser

We fabricate the Tm-doped double cladding silica fiber by using the vapor-solution hybrid-doping method, then build up an all-fiber Tin-doped fiber laser which can provide the output power of up to 121 W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 51% and an optical-optical efficiency of 48%. By using the domestic Tin-doped fiber, it is the first time a hundred-watt level output at 1915nm has been achieved, to the best of our knowledge. The thermal effect of Tm-doped fiber laser is also analyzed.

All-fiber linearly polarized laser oscillator by fiber coiling loss control

In this paper,we demonstrate an all-fiber linearly polarized fiber laser oscillator.The single polarization of the oscillator is achieved through the careful designing of the active fiber coiling.The relationship between fiber coiling diameter and polarization extinction ratio and optical efficiency is studied,whose results lead to an optimized system.The thermal management of the oscillator is also refined,which allows the oscillator to reach a maximum output power of44.1 W with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 57.9%.A high average polarization extinction ratio of 21.6 d B is achieved during a 2-hour stability test.The oscillator also owns a narrow 3-d B bandwidth of 0.1 nm,as well as near-diffraction-limit beam quality of M^2～ 1.14.

Eye-safe,single-frequency pulsed all-fiber laser for Doppler wind lidar

A single-frequency pulsed erbium-doped fiber （EDF） laser with master-oscillator power-amplifier configuration at 1 533 nm is developed. A short-cavity, erbium-doped phosphate glass fiber laser is utilized as a seeder laser with a linewidth of 5 kHz and power of 40 mW. The seeder laser is modulated to be a pulse laser with a repetition rate of 10 kHz and pulse duration of 500 ns. The amplifier consists of two pre-amplifiers and one main amplifier. The detailed characteristics of the spectrum and linewidth of the amplifiers are presented. A pulse energy of 116 μJ and a linewidth of 1.1 MHz are obtained. This laser can be a candidate transmitter for an all-fiber Doppler wind lidar in the boundary layer.

227-W output all-fiberized Tm-doped fiber laser at 1908 nm

In this paper, we report that a diode-pumped thulium-doped double clad silica fiber laser can provide powers of up to 227 W at 1908 nm, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 54.3%, and an optical-to-optical efficiency of 51.2%. The output power, to the best of our knowledge, is the highest output at 1908 nm. The beam quality M2 factor is about 1.56. Also discussed in this paper is the dependence of the laser performance on fiber length.