All-fiber passively mode-locked Tm-doped NOLM-based oscillator operating at 2-μm in both soliton and noisy-pulse regimes.
Jianfeng Li,Zuxing Zhang,Zhongyuan Sun,Hongyu Luo,Yong Liu,Zhijun Yan,Chengbo Mou,Lin Zhang,Sergei K. Turitsyn +8 more
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To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first 2 µm region NOLM-based mode-locked fiber laser operating at two regimes with the highest single pulse energy for NL pulses.Abstract:
A self-starting all-fiber passively mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear loop mirror (NOLM) is demonstrated. Stable soliton pulses centered at 2017.33 nm with 1.56 nm FWHM were produced at a repetition rate of 1.514 MHz with pulse duration of 2.8 ps and pulse energy of 83.8 pJ. As increased pump power, the oscillator can also operate at noise-like (NL) regime. Stable NL pulses with coherence spike width of 341 fs and pulse energy of up to 249.32 nJ was achieved at a center wavelength of 2017.24 nm with 21.33 nm FWHM. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first 2 μm region NOLM-based mode-locked fiber laser operating at two regimes with the highest single pulse energy for NL pulses.read more
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Review of mid-infrared mode-locked laser sources in the 2.0 μm–3.5 μm spectral region
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize and review the recent progress of mid-IR mode-locked laser sources, including Tm3+, Ho3+-, and Tm 3+/Ho3+-doped all-solid-state and fiber laser sources for the 2.0μm-3.5μm spectral region.
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Advances in 2-μm Tm-doped mode-locked fiber lasers
TL;DR: A review of previously demonstrated mode-locked thulium-doped fiber sources up to the state-of-the-art can be found in this article along with the aforementioned applications of these sources.
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Mode-locked Tm fiber laser using SMF-SIMF-GIMF-SMF fiber structure as a saturable absorber.
TL;DR: A mode-locked all-fiber Tm laser using a single mode-step index multimode-graded-index multimodes-single mode fiber structure as a saturable absorber based on the nonlinear multimodal interference is demonstrated.
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Generation of wavelength-tunable soliton molecules in a 2-μm ultrafast all-fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization evolution.
TL;DR: Stable single solitons and soliton molecules in a 2-μm thulium-holmium-doped fiber laser mode-locked through the nonlinear polarization evolution technique within an anomalously dispersive cavity are observed and strong experimental evidence of vibratingsoliton molecules is presented.
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Ultra-broadband dissipative soliton and noise-like pulse generation from a normal dispersion mode-locked Tm-doped all-fiber laser.
TL;DR: These are the broadest spectra generated from a normal dispersion mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser so far, and the same oscillator might also operate in the noise-like pulse regime with extremely broad emission spectra, which also significantly outperforms the previous reports.
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Amplified 2- $\mu{\rm m}$ Thulium-Doped All-Fiber Mode-Locked Figure-Eight Laser
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Nonlinear Amplifying Loop-Mirror-Based Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser
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