title: Cladding-pumped passive harmonically mode-locked fiber laser.
abstract: A passive harmonically mode-locked fiber laser cladding pumped by a broad-area diode-laser array is described. Harmonic mode locking is obtained in a frequency range from 33.3 to 128.6 MHz, where the higher frequency limit is imposed because of insufficient available pump power. The maximum pulse jitter in one cavity roundtrip time is between 300 and 50 ps in the whole frequency range, and the sidebands in the frequency domain are suppressed by as much as 50 dB. 600-fs bandwidth-limited pulses with pulse energies of as much as 20 pJ are obtained, giving rise to an average output power as great as 2.5 mW.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fermann
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Minelly