Self-stabilized energy-scalable dissipative soliton fiber laser

J. H. Kim; G. H. Jang; T. H. Yoon

doi:10.1134/S1054660X11230083

Self-stabilized energy-scalable dissipative soliton fiber laser

J. H. Kim^*
, G. H. Jang
, T. H. Yoon

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Physics

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We report on the self-stabilized dissipative-soliton laser with an energy scalability by using a semi-conductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) as the pulse stabilizer for the first time. By tailoring the fluence on the SESAM relying on the two-photon absorption effect so that its reflectivity has a negative slope with respect to the fluence, the intra-cavity pulse dynamics is self-stabilized to produce single pulses only, resulting in a 48-nJ pulse energy and an unprecedented pump-to-output power conversion efficiency of 63%. Therefore, it resolves a long standing problem of the formation of multiple pulses in high-energy mode-locked lasers and thus opens a way to build high repetition-rate oscillators with microjoules pulse energies without any external amplifiers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	207-211
Number of pages	5
Journal	Laser Physics
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X11230083
Publication status	Published - 2012 Jan

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We thank D. Cho for critical reading of the manu script. This research was supported by the Basic Research and in part by the NSL programs of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2011 0006670 and 2008 2003197).

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

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