• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 20, Issue 4, 041403 (2022)
Shanchao Ma1, Baofu Zhang2、*, Qiurun He1, Jing Guo3, and Zhongxing Jiao1、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China
  • 3School of Opto-Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202220.041403 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Shanchao Ma, Baofu Zhang, Qiurun He, Jing Guo, Zhongxing Jiao. Wavelength-tunable mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear Kerr beam clean-up effect[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(4): 041403 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate a novel approach to achieve wavelength-tunable ultrashort pulses from an all-fiber mode-locked laser with a saturable absorber based on the nonlinear Kerr beam clean-up effect. This saturable absorber was formed by a single-mode fiber spliced to a graded-index multimode fiber, and its tunable band-pass filter effect is described by a numerical model. By adjusting the bending condition of the graded-index multimode fiber, the laser could produce dissipative soliton pulses with their central wavelength tunable from 1040 nm to 1063 nm. The pulse duration of the output laser could be compressed externally to 791 fs, and the signal to noise ratio of its radio frequency spectrum was measured to be 75.5 dB.
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    Shanchao Ma, Baofu Zhang, Qiurun He, Jing Guo, Zhongxing Jiao. Wavelength-tunable mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser based on nonlinear Kerr beam clean-up effect[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(4): 041403
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