title: All-fiber cavity dumping.
abstract: Cavity dumping of an all-fiber laser system is demonstrated. The active element is a pulse-picker with nanosecond rise time consisting of a microstructured fiber with electrically driven internal electrodes. The device is used for intracavity polarization rotation and dumping through a polarization splitter. The optical flux is removed from the cavity within one roundtrip and most of the amplified spontaneous emission, spiking and relaxation oscillation that follow during the gain recovery phase of the laser are blocked from the output signal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Roslagstullbacken 2,10691 Stockholm, Sweden. mm@laserphysics.kth.se
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malmström
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Margulis
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tarasenko
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laurell
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity