title: Passive harmonic mode-locking of a soliton Yb fiber laser at repetition rates to 1.5 GHz.
abstract: We report passive harmonic mode locking of a soliton Yb fiber laser at repetition rates continuously scalable up to 1.5 GHz. The laser generates transform-limited 500 fs pulses, with pulse energies of 30-100 pJ. At the 31st harmonic (1.3 GHz), the cavity supermodes are suppressed by 35 dB, and the pulse-to-pulse timing jitter is 6 ps.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. sz53@cornell.edu
authors.forename: Shian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Dimitre G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Ouzounov
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Wise