title: Femtosecond soliton mode-locked laser based on ytterbium-doped photonic bandgap fiber.
abstract: We demonstrate a solid-core ytterbium-doped photonic bandgap fiber laser passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber. Gain and anomalous dispersion simultaneously provided by the photonic crystal fiber allow for an all-fiber subpicosecond soliton oscillator. We also discuss the effect of higher-order dispersion in photonic bandgap fiber on laser performance.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Isomäki
authors.forename: Oleg G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Okhotnikov