title: Cladding-pumped passively mode-locked fiber laser generating femtosecond and picosecond pulses.
abstract: Passively mode-locked fiber lasers cladding pumped by broad-area diode-laser arrays are described. With a dispersion-compenstated erbium-ytterbium fiber oscillator, 200-fs pulses with pulse energies up to 100 pJ are generated at a wavelength of 1560 nm. In a highly dispersive cavity, pulse widths of 3 ps with pulse energies up to 1 nJ are obtained. A saturable absorber is used for pulse startup, whereas nonlinear polarization evolution is exploited for steady-state pulse shaping. An environmentally stable design is ensured by use of a compensation scheme for linear polarization drifts in the cavity.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fermann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Harter
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Minelly
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Vienne