title: Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror.
abstract: We report on a new design for a passively mode locked fibre laser employing all normal dispersion polarisation maintaining fibres operating at 1 μm. The laser produces linearly polarized, linearly chirped pulses that can be recompressed down to 344 fs. Compared to previous laser designs the cavity is mode-locked using a nonlinear amplifying fibre loop mirror that provides an additional degree of freedom allowing easy control over the pulse parameters. This is a robust laser design with excellent reliability and lifetime.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. c.aguergaray@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aguergaray
authors.forename: Neil G R
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Broderick
authors.forename: Miro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erkintalo
authors.forename: Jocelyn S Y
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kruglov
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000379:methods; D007834:Lasers; D015233:Models, Statistical; D055100:Optical Fibers; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013997:Time Factors; D015018:Ytterbium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D015018:Ytterbium