All-fiber spatiotemporal mode-locking lasers with large modal dispersion

Huaiwei Zhang; Yunhong Zhang; Jiying Peng; Xinyang Su; Xiaosheng Xiao; Dongjian Xu; Junhao Chen; Tianran Sun; Kai Zheng; Jianquan Yao; Yi Zheng

doi:10.1364/PRJ.444750

[1] Z. Wang, L. Li, D. N. Wang, Z. Le, S. Zhang, S. Cao, Z. Fang. Generation of pulse-width controllable dissipative solitons and bound solitons by using an all fiber saturable absorber. Opt. Lett., 44, 570-573(2019).

[2] U. Tegin, B. Ortac. All-fiber all-normal-dispersion femtosecond laser with a nonlinear multimodal interference-based saturable absorber. Opt. Lett., 43, 1611-1614(2018).

[3] L. G. Wright, D. N. Christodoulides, F. W. Wise. Spatiotemporal mode-locking in multimode fiber lasers. Science, 358, 94-97(2017).

[4] A. Mafi. Pulse propagation in a short nonlinear graded-index multimode optical fiber. J. Lightwave Technol., 30, 2803-2811(2012).

[5] U. Tegin, B. Rahmani, E. Kakkava, D. Psaltis, C. Moser. Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers. Adv. Photon., 2, 056005(2020).

[6] L. G. Wright, D. N. Christodoulides, F. W. Wise. Controllable spatiotemporal nonlinear effects in multimode fibres. Nat. Photonics, 9, 306-310(2015).

[7] Y. Ding, X. Xiao, K. Liu, S. Fan, X. Zhang, C. Yang. Spatiotemporal mode-locking in lasers with large modal dispersion. Phys. Rev. Lett., 126, 093901(2021).

[8] E. Nazemosadat, A. Mafi. Nonlinear multimodal interference and saturable absorption using a short graded-index multimode optical fiber. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 30, 1357-1367(2013).

[9] G. Chen, W. Li, G. Wang, W. Zhang, C. Zeng, W. Zhao. Generation of coexisting high-energy pulses in a mode-locked all-fiber laser with a nonlinear multimodal interference technique. Photon. Res., 7, 187-192(2019).

[10] K. Krupa, A. Tonello, B. M. Shalaby, M. Fabert, A. Barthélémy, G. Millot, S. Wabnitz, V. Couderc. Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres. Nat. Photonics, 11, 237-241(2017).

[11] Z. Liu, L. G. Wright, D. N. Christodoulides, F. W. Wise. Kerr self-cleaning of femtosecond-pulsed beams in graded-index multimode fiber. Opt. Lett., 41, 3675-3678(2016).

[12] E. Deliancourt, M. Fabert, A. Tonello, K. Krupa, A. Desfarges Berthelemot, V. Kermene, G. Millot, A. Barthelemy, S. Wabnitz, V. Couderc. Wavefront shaping for optimized many-mode Kerr beam self-cleaning in graded-index multimode fiber. Opt. Express, 27, 17311-17321(2019).

[13] R. Guenard, K. Krupa, R. Dupiol, M. Fabert, A. Bendahmane, V. Kermene, A. Desfarges-Berthelemot, J. L. Auguste, A. Tonello, A. Barthelemy, G. Millot, S. Wabnitz, V. Couderc. Kerr self-cleaning of pulsed beam in an ytterbium doped multimode fiber. Opt. Express, 25, 4783-4792(2017).

[14] L. G. Wright, Z. Liu, D. A. Nolan, M. J. Li, D. N. Christodoulides, F. W. Wise. Self-organized instability in graded-index multimode fibres. Nat. Photonics, 10, 771-776(2016).

[15] K. Krupa, A. Tonello, A. Barthelemy, V. Couderc, B. M. Shalaby, A. Bendahmane, G. Millot, S. Wabnitz. Observation of geometric parametric instability induced by the periodic spatial self-imaging of multimode waves. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 183901(2016).

[16] W. H. Renninger, F. W. Wise. Optical solitons in graded-index multimode fibres. Nat. Commun., 4, 1719(2013).

[17] H. Qin, X. Xiao, P. Wang, C. Yang. Observation of soliton molecules in a spatiotemporal mode-locked multimode fiber laser. Opt. Lett., 43, 1982-1985(2018).

[18] Y. Ding, X. Xiao, P. Wang, C. Yang. Multiple-soliton in spatiotemporal mode-locked multimode fiber lasers. Opt. Express, 27, 11435-11446(2019).

[19] K. Liu, X. Xiao, Y. Ding, H. Peng, D. Lv, C. Yang. Buildup dynamics of multiple-soliton in spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers. Photon. Res., 9, 1898-1906(2021).

[20] L. G. Wright, Z. M. Ziegler, P. M. Lushnikov, Z. Zhu, M. A. Eftekhar, D. N. Christodoulides, F. W. Wise. Multimode nonlinear fiber optics: massively parallel numerical solver, tutorial, and outlook. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., 24, 5100516(2018).

[21] H. Wu, W. Lin, Y. J. Tan, H. Cui, Z. C. Luo, W. C. Xu, A. P. Luo. Pulses with switchable wavelengths and hysteresis in an all-fiber spatio-temporal mode-locked laser. Appl. Phys. Express, 13, 022008(2020).

[22] X. B. Lin, Y. X. Gao, J. G. Long, J. W. Wu, W. Hong, H. Cui, Z. C. Luo, W. C. Xu, A. P. Luo. All few-mode fiber spatiotemporal mode-locked figure-eight laser. J. Lightwave Technol., 39, 5611-5616(2021).

[23] T. Y. Tsai, Y. C. Fang, H. M. Huang, H. X. Tsao, S. T. Lin. Saturable absorber Q- and gain-switched all-Yb³⁺ all-fiber laser at 976 and 1064 nm. Opt. Express, 18, 23523-23528(2010).

[24] D. B. Soh, S. E. Bisson, B. D. Patterson, S. W. Moore. High-power all-fiber passively Q-switched laser using a doped fiber as a saturable absorber: numerical simulations. Opt. Lett., 36, 2536-2538(2011).

[25] J. Zhou, Y. Lu, B. He, X. Gu. Q-switched laser in an SMS cavity for inhibiting nonlinear effects. Appl. Opt., 54, 6080-6084(2015).

[26] W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, F. W. Wise. Pulse shaping and evolution in normal-dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., 18, 389-398(2011).

[27] A. Mafi, P. Hofmann, C. J. Salvin, A. Schulzgen. Low-loss coupling between two single-mode optical fibers with different mode-field diameters using a graded-index multimode optical fiber. Opt. Lett., 36, 3596-3598(2011).

[28] U. Tegin, B. Rahmani, E. Kakkava, D. Psaltis, C. Moser. All-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser with multimode fiber-based filtering. Opt. Express, 28, 23433-23438(2020).

[29] A. Komarov, H. Leblond, F. Sanchez. Theoretical analysis of the operating regime of a passively-mode-locked fiber laser through nonlinear polarization rotation. Phys. Rev. A, 72, 063811(2005).

[30] J. W. Wu, Y. X. Gao, X. B. Lin, J. G. Long, H. Cui, Z. C. Luo, W. C. Xu, A. P. Luo. Q-switched mode-locked multimode fiber laser based on a graphene-deposited multimode microfiber. Chin. Opt. Lett., 19, 121402(2021).

[31] K. Liu, X. Xiao, C. Yang. Observation of transition between multimode Q-switching and spatiotemporal mode locking. Photon. Res., 9, 530-534(2021).

[32] L. Xiaomin, J. Lagsgaard, D. Turchinovich. Monolithic highly stable Yb-doped femtosecond fiber lasers for applications in practical biophotonics. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., 18, 1439-1450(2012).

[33] C. Aguergaray, N. G. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Chen, V. Kruglov. Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror. Opt. Express, 20, 10545-10551(2012).

[34] H. Haig, P. Sidorenko, A. Dhar, N. Choudhury, R. Sen, D. Christodoulides, F. Wise. Multimode Mamyshev oscillator(2021).