Numerical study on thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser with high modulation depth of saturable absorber

XIA Jing; JIANG Guobao; ZHAO Chujun

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Numerical study on thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser with high modulation depth of saturable absorber

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Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education, College of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Corresponding author: ZHAO Chujun, cjzhao@hnu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2015-04-17
Accepted Date: 2015-04-24

Abstract

In order to validate the impact of saturable absorber on output performance of thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser, the effect of parameters of saturable absorber was numerically studied based on the coupled Ginzburg-Landau equation. The time domain and frequency domain characteristics of thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser modulated by high modulation depth saturable absorber were discussed. The results show that pulse width is shortened and time-bandwidth product decreases effectively by choosing high modulation depth saturable absorber with suitable modulation depth. The result would provide some design guidelines for the developing of the steady, ultrafast mid-infrared fiber lasers.
- lasers,
- passively mode-locked,
- numerical simulation,
- saturable absorber

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[16]	LI D J, DU G G. The recent research progress of Tm3+doped fiber lasers[J].Laser Technology, 2007, 31(5):540-543(in Chinese)
[17]	CAO D X, ZHANG B F, WANG X L. An all-fiber,polarization-maintaining,2m mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2014, 26(9):80-83(in Chinese).
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[21]	ZHAO L M, TANG D Y, ZHANG H, et al. Dynamics of gain-guided solitons in an all-normal-dispersion fiber laser[J]. Optics Letters, 2007, 32(13):1806-1808.
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[24]	ZHANG H, TANG D Y, ZHAO L M, et al. Dissipative vector solitons in a dispersion managed cavity fiber laser with net positive cavity dispersion[J]. Optics Express, 2009, 17(2):455-460.

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Numerical study on thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser with high modulation depth of saturable absorber

Corresponding author: ZHAO Chujun, cjzhao@hnu.edu.cn

1. Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education, College of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Received Date: 2015-04-17

Accepted Date: 2015-04-24

Available Online: 2016-07-25

Abstract: In order to validate the impact of saturable absorber on output performance of thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser, the effect of parameters of saturable absorber was numerically studied based on the coupled Ginzburg-Landau equation. The time domain and frequency domain characteristics of thulium-doped mode-locked fiber laser modulated by high modulation depth saturable absorber were discussed. The results show that pulse width is shortened and time-bandwidth product decreases effectively by choosing high modulation depth saturable absorber with suitable modulation depth. The result would provide some design guidelines for the developing of the steady, ultrafast mid-infrared fiber lasers.

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[1]	JACKSON S D. Towards high-power mid-infrared emission from a fire laser[J]. Nature Photonics, 2012, 6(7):423-431.
[2]	WANG P, LIU J. Progress and prospect on ultrafast tm-doped fiber lasers at 2.0m wavelength[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2013, 40(6):0601002(in Chinese)
[3]	CABASSE A, MARTEL G, OUDAR J L. High power dissipative soliton in an erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked with a high modulation depth saturable absorber mirror[J]. Optics Express, 2009, 17(12):9537-9542.
[4]	SZABO A, VARALLYAY Z. Numerical study on the saturable absorber parameter selection in an erbium fiber ring oscillator[J]. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2012, 24(2):122-124.
[5]	LI LU H H, CHOW K K. Enhanced stability of dispersion-managed mode-locked fiber lasers with near-zero net cavity dispersion by high-contrast saturable absorbers[J]. Optics Letters, 2014, 39(1):150-153.
[6]	KELLER U. Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers[J]. Nature, 2003, 424(8):831-838.
[7]	MARTINEZ A, SUN Z. Nanotube and graphene saturable absorbers for fiber lasers[J]. Nature Photonics, 2013, 7(11):842-845.
[8]	BAO Q, ZHANG H, WANG Y, et al. Atomic-layer graphene as a saturable absorber for ultrafast pulsed lasers[J]. Advanced Functional Materials, 2009, 19(19):3077-3083.
[9]	WANG Q, CHEN Y, JIANG G, et al. Drop-casted self-assembled topological insulator membrane as an effective saturable absorber for ultrafast laser photonics[J]. IEEE Photonics Journal, 2015, 7(2):1-11.
[10]	ZHAO C J, ZHANG H, QI X, et al. Ultra-short pulse generation by a topological insulator based saturable absorber[J]. Applied Physics Letters, 2012, 101(21):211106.
[11]	ZHANG H, CHEN Y, WANG Z T, et al. Graphene Q-switched, tunable Er-doped fiber laser[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2012, 24(12):2807-2810(in Chinese).
[12]	XU J, WU S D, WANG P, et al. Based on narrow linewidth of graphene oxide passive mode-locking picosecond pulse erbium-doped fiber laser[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2012, 39(7):5-8(in Chinese).
[13]	HE X, LUO A P, YANG Q, et al. 60nm bandwidth, 17nJ noise like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber ring laser[J]. Applied Physics Express, 2013, 6(11):112702-112707.
[14]	LUO Z Q, LIU C, HUANG Y Z, et al. Topological-insulator passively Q-switched double-clad fiber laser at 2m wavelength[J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2014, 20(5):0902708.
[15]	YANG W Q, HOU J, ZHANG B, et al. Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror passively Q-switched fiber laser at 2m wavelength[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2012, 24(7):1515-1516(in Chinese).
[16]	LI D J, DU G G. The recent research progress of Tm3+doped fiber lasers[J].Laser Technology, 2007, 31(5):540-543(in Chinese)
[17]	CAO D X, ZHANG B F, WANG X L. An all-fiber,polarization-maintaining,2m mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2014, 26(9):80-83(in Chinese).
[18]	NELSON L E, JONES D J, TAMURA K, et al. Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers[J]. Applied Physics,1997,B65(2):277-294.
[19]	ILDAY F , BUCKLEY J R, CLARK W G, et al. Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2004, 92(21):213902.
[20]	CHONG A, BUCKLEY J, RENNINGER W, et al. All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser[J]. Optics Express, 2006, 14(21):10095-10100.
[21]	ZHAO L M, TANG D Y, ZHANG H, et al. Dynamics of gain-guided solitons in an all-normal-dispersion fiber laser[J]. Optics Letters, 2007, 32(13):1806-1808.
[22]	KOBTSEV S, KUKARIN S, FEDOTOV Y. Ultra-low repetition rate mode-locked fiber laser with high-energy pulses[J]. Optics Express, 2008, 16(26):21936-21941.
[23]	AN Y, SHEN D, ZHAO W, et al. Characteristics of pulse evolution in mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser[J]. Optics Communications, 2012, 285(7):1949-1953.
[24]	ZHANG H, TANG D Y, ZHAO L M, et al. Dissipative vector solitons in a dispersion managed cavity fiber laser with net positive cavity dispersion[J]. Optics Express, 2009, 17(2):455-460.

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