Investigation of self-pulsing and self-mode-locking in ytterbium-doped fiber laser

Han Xu; Feng Guo-Ying; Wu Chuan-Long; Jiang Dong-Sheng; Zhou Shou-Huan

doi:10.7498/aps.61.114204

Abstract

The output characteristics of a continuous-wave diode pumped free-running double-clad ytterbium-doped fiber laser are investigated. In the experiment, not only self-pulsing is observed, but also self-mode-locking is observed for the first time in the free-running fiber laser. The physical mechanism responsible for these phenomena is analyzed. The analysis reveals that the signal is absorbed in the weakly pumped or non-pumped part of the active fiber, which leads the self-pulsing to be present, and self-mode-locking is induced by axial mode beating and self-phase modulation, which are enhanced by nonlinear effects, stimulated Raman scattering, and stimulated Brillouin scattering. The pulse width of self-pulsing decreases as pump power increases. The pulse width of self-mode-locking pulses becomes narrow with the increase of the pump power. When the pump power is higher than 8 W, self-pulsing and self-mode-locking disappear. The interval between adjacent self-mode-locking pulses is 224 ns, corresponding to the cavity round-trip time. The maximum and the minimum durations (full width at half maximum) of self-mode locked pulses are about 35.0 ns and 6.3 ns respectively, and the maximum and minimum spectral widths (full width at half maximum) of signal light are about 7.05 nm and 2.01 nm respectively.

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Authors and contacts

1.
College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;
2.
School of Physics and Chemistry, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China;
3.
North China Research Institute of Electro-Optics, Beijing 100015, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60890200, 10976017, 10876022) and the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Solid-State Laser Technology, China.

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