title: Femtosecond Neodymium-doped microstructure fiber laser.
abstract: We demonstrate femtosecond operation of a Nd-doped mi-crostructure fiber laser. The fiber provides gain and anomalous dispersion at the lasing wavelength of 1.06 microm and enables the construction of short and simple cavity designs. The laser is passively mode-locked by the combined action of a saturable absorber mirror, fiber nonlinearity, and dispersion and produces transform limited sub-400-fs pulses with a pulse energy as high as 100 pJ.
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moenster
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Glas
authors.forename: Günter
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Steinmeyer
authors.forename: Rumen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Iliew
authors.forename: Nikolay
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lebedev
authors.forename: Reiner
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wedell
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bretschneider