Abstract
We examine the impact of the recovery time of a semiconductor saturable absorber together with the value of its saturation fluence, total net gain, and cavity dispersion on femtosecond pulse generation by mode-locked fiber lasers resulting in a massive optimization of the system performance. Stable regimes of asymptotic single-pulse generation have been identified as zones in a parameter map. We demonstrate that a stable single-pulse regime leads to formation of pulses with chirp, width, and peak power strongly varying during one cavity round trip while slowly oscillating with a period that is much longer than a round trip.
© 2009 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Shiping Xiong, Daping Luo, Yang Liu, Wenchao Wang, Zejiang Deng, Zhenqiang Tang, Gehui Xie, Lian Zhou, Zhong Zuo, Chenglin Gu, and Wenxue Li
Opt. Express 31(1) 514-527 (2023)
M. Guina, N. Xiang, A. Vainionpää, O. G. Okhotnikov, T. Sajavaara, and J. Keinonen
Opt. Lett. 26(22) 1809-1811 (2001)
J. Nathan Kutz, Brandon C. Collings, Keren Bergman, Sergio Tsuda, Steven T. Cundiff, Wayne H. Knox, Philip Holmes, and Michael Weinstein
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14(10) 2681-2690 (1997)