All-PM Divided Pulse Fiber Oscillator Mode-locked with the Optical Kerr-effect
Abstract
In this letter, we investigate a Yb-doped mode-locked fiber oscillator that uses coherent pulse division and recombination to avoid excessive nonlinear phase shifts. The mode-locking mechanism of the laser is based on the accumulation of a differential nonlinear phase between orthogonal polarization modes in the polarization-maintaining fiber segment. The inserted coherent pulse divider, based on YVO4-crystals rotated successively by 45{\deg}, enables stable and undistorted mode-locked steady-states. The output pulse energy is increased from 89 pJ in the non-divided operation by ~6.5 dB to more than 400 pJ with three divisions. Measurements of the amplitude-fluctuations reveal a simultaneous broadband reduction of up to ~9 dB in the frequency range from 10 kHz to 2MHz.
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@article{arxiv.2108.12622,
title = {All-PM Divided Pulse Fiber Oscillator Mode-locked with the Optical Kerr-effect},
author = {Marvin Edelmann and Yi Hua and Gabor Kulscar and Franz X. Kärtner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12622},
year = {2022}
}