All-fiber ultrafast thulium-doped fiber ring laser with dissipative soliton and noise-like output in normal dispersion by single-wall carbon nanotubes

Qingqing Wang, Tong Chen, Mingshan Li, Botao Zhang, Yongfeng Lu, Kevin P. Chen

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Abstract

An ultrafast thulium-doped fiber laser with large net normal dispersion has been developed to produce dissipative soliton and noise-like outputs at 1.9 μm. The mode-locked operation was enabled by using single-wall carbon nanotubes as saturable absorber for all-fiber configuration. Dissipative soliton in normal dispersion produced by the fiber laser oscillator was centered at 1947 nm with 4.1-nm FWHM bandwidth and 0.45 nJ/pulse. The output dissipative soliton pulses were compressed to 2.3 ps outside the laser cavity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number011103
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume103
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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