title: 130 mW average power, 4.6 nJ pulse energy, 10.2 ps pulse duration from an Er3+ fiber oscillator passively mode locked by a resonant saturable absorber mirror.
abstract: An Er(3+) fiber laser passively mode locked by a resonant saturable absorber mirror achieves more than 130 mW average power at 1560 nm from a Fabry-Perot cavity. The pulsed regime is self-starting from the CW regime without any Q-switch transition. The output pulse has a duration of 10.2 ps and can be extracavity dechirped with 42% efficiency down to 614 fs, which represents 1.2 times the Fourier limit imposed by the spectrum. To date, this corresponds to the highest averaged power directly extracted at such a wavelength from a fiber laser mode locked with a saturable absorber mirror.
authors.affiliation: Complexe de Recherche Interprofessionnel en Aérothermochimie-CNRS UMR 6614, Avenue de l’Université, BP12, 76801 Rouen, France.
authors.forename: Amélie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cabasse
authors.forename: Dmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gaponov
authors.forename: Khadime
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ndao
authors.forename: Aghiad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khadour
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Oudar
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martel