title: High-repetition-rate, 491 MHz, femtosecond fiber laser with low timing jitter.
abstract: We demonstrate a soliton fiber laser based on an anomalously dispersive erbium-doped fiber butt-coupled to a saturable absorber mirror for passive mode locking. The laser generates 180 fs pulses at a repetition rate of 491 MHz and exhibits a timing jitter as low as 20 fs over the frequency range 1 kHz-10 MHz.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. hibyun@mit.edu
authors.forename: Hyunil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Byun
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pudo
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Erich P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Ippen
authors.forename: Franz X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Kärtner