Environmentally-stable all-normal-dispersion picosecond Yb-doped fiber laser with an achromatic quarter-wave-plate

G. H. Jang, T. H. Yoon

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    Abstract

    We present an environmentally-stable picosecond Yb-doped fiber laser by employing an achro- matic quarter-wave-plate (AQWP) as a pulse stabilizer in the all-normal-dispersion and polarization-main- taining linear laser cavity. It is shown that the AQWP plays a critical role to control both the polarization state and spectral filtering of the proposed mode-locked laser. The demonstrated laser generates 2-ps-long pulses with pulse energies of 1 nJ at a repetition rate of 117 MHz and parabolic spectral width of 26 nm. The funda- mental RF carrier frequency exhibits Allan deviation of 3.8 × 10-8 at 1-s averaging time and phase noise of - 95 dBc/Hz at 10-Hz offset frequency.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1463-1468
    Number of pages6
    JournalLaser Physics
    Volume20
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010 Jun

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research was supported by National Space Laboratory program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (2008 03197).

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
    • Instrumentation
    • Condensed Matter Physics
    • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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