Abstract
We experimentally discussed the output characteristics of a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser using a single-mode fiber (SMF) structure as a saturable absorber (SA) based on nonlinear optic loop mirror (NOLM). The NOLM acting as an SA has properties of controllable pulse interval and pulse width. Four different types of NOLMs are experimentally discussed and the results show that fine adjustment to the coupler ratio together with optimization of the SMF length inside the NOLM can simultaneously implement high pulse energy and pulse internal tunability. The laser configuration provides a method to generate well-performing mode-locked lasing, and the investigations of the effects of changing some parameters of the laser also provide some help for the development of mode-locked fiber laser based on NOLM.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
M. E. Fermann and I. Hartl, Nat. Photon. 7, 868 (2013).
D. Deng, L. Zhan, Z. Gu, Y. Gu and Y. Xia, Opt. Express 17, 4284 (2009).
U. Keller, Nature 424, 831 (2003).
T. Feng, D. Ding, Z. Zhao, H. Su, F. Yan and X. Yao, Laser Phys. Lett. 13, 105104 (2016).
N. P. Barnes, B. M. Walsh, D. J. Reichle and R. J. De Young, Opt. Mater. 31, 1061 (2009).
T. R. Schibli, I. Hartl, D. C. Yost, M. Martin, A. Marcinkevičius, M. E. Fermann and J. Ye, Nat. Photon. 2, 355 (2008).
A. A. Krylov, D. S. Chernykh and E. D. Obraztsova, Opt. Lett. 42, 2439 (2017).
F. Wang, A. G. Rozhin, V. Scardaci, Z. Sun, F. Hennrich, I. H. White, W. I. Milne and A. C. Ferrari, Nat. Nanotechnol. 3, 738 (2008).
J. M. Dudley, C. Finot, D. J. Richardson and G. Millot, Nat. Phys. 3, 597 (2008).
H. Gereon, C. Yao and E. Endl, Med. Laser Appl. 20, 135 (2005).
Z.Y. Yan, X.H. Li, Y.L. Tang, P.P. Shum, X. Yu, Y. Zhang and Q.J. Wang, Opt. Exp. 23, 4369 (2015).
C. Mou, S. Sergeyev, A. Rozhin and S. Turistyn, Opt. Lett. 36, 3831 (2011).
Y. Mashiko, E. Fujita and M. Tokurakawa, Opt. Express 24, 26515 (2016).
P. Hu, Y. Liu, L. Guo, X. Ge, X. Liu, L. Yu and Q. Liu, Appl. Opt. 58, 7845 (2019).
H. Zhang, D. Y. Tang, R. J. Knize, L. Zhao, Q. Bao and K. P. Loh, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 111 (2010).
W. Pan, J. Zhou, L. Zhang and Y. Feng, J. Light. Technol. 37, 1333 (2019).
P. Honzatko, Y. Baravets and F. Todorov, Laser Phys. Lett. 10, 075103 (2013).
H. Liu, A. Luo, F. Wang, R. Tang, M. Liu, Z. Luo, W. Xu, C. Zhao and H. Zhang, Opt. Lett. 39, 4591 (2014).
P. Yan, A. Liu, Y. Chen, H. Chen, S. Ruan, C. Guo, S. Chen, I. Li, H. Yang and J. Hu, Opt. Mater. Express 5, 479 (2015).
Y. Chen, G. Jiang, S. Chen, Z. Guo, X. Yu, C. Zhao, H. Zhang, Q. Bao, S. Wen, D. Tang and D. Fan, Opt. Express 23, 12823 (2015).
Y. Song, S. Chen, Q. Zhang, L. Li, L. Zhao, H. Zhang and D. Tang, Opt. Express 24, 25933 (2016).
Z. Wang, D. Wang, F. Yang, L. Li, C. Zhao, B. Xu, S. Jin, S. Cao and Z. Fang, J. Light. Technol. 35, 5280 (2017).
J. Zhu, W. Tian, Z. Gao and Z. Wei, Chin. J. Lasers 44, 090001 (2017).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
This work has been supported in part by the Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Plan Projects (No.LGG19F050001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.601705055), and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No.LY17F050012).
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Zhou, F., Zhou, Xf., Bi, Mh. et al. Study of the output characteristics of nonlinear optical loop mirror on an erbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser. Optoelectron. Lett. 17, 283–288 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-021-0082-x
Received:
Revised:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-021-0082-x