116-fs Soliton Source Based on an Er-Yb Codoped Waveguide Amplifier

Abstract - A passively mode-locked soliton ring fiber laser is investigated that utilizes a 4.5-cm erbium-ytterbium (Er-Yb) codoped waveguide amplifier as the gain element. The resulting short cavity (1.3 m of fiber) eliminates multipulsing behavior and reduces the effects of resonant sidebands, enabling generation of 116-fs solitons with a pulse energy of 160 pJ at a fundamental repetition rate of 130 MHz.

Authors:
D.J. Jones, S. Namiki, D. Barbier, E.P. Ippen, Fellow, IEEE, and H.A. Haus, Life Fellow, IEEE

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