Raman fiber laser pumped by a semiconductor disk laser and mode locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror.
A 1.6µm mode-locked Raman fiber laser pumped by a 1480nm semiconductor disk laser is demonstrated. Watt-level core pumping of the single-mode fiber Raman lasers with low-noise disk lasers together with semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode locking represents a highly practical solution for short-pulse operation.
Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 3, 33720 Tampere, Finland. alexander.chamorovskiy@tut.fi
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Chamorovskiy
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Rautiainen
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Lyytikäinen
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Ranta
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Tavast
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Sirbu
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Kapon
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Okhotnikov