COMPACT FIBER SHORT PULSE LASER SOURCES
First Claim
1. A passively mode locked fiber oscillator evolving from Q-switching, comprising:
- a Fabry-Perot cavity comprising;
a nonlinear fiber amplifying loop mirror (NALM) at a first cavity end, said nonlinear loop mirror configured to allow the insertion of a linear phase delay along two propagation directions of said nonlinear loop mirror,wherein said passively mode locked fiber oscillator comprises polarization maintaining (PM) fiber.
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Abstract
Examples of robust self-starting passively mode locked fiber oscillators are described. In certain implementations, the oscillators are configured as Fabry-Perot cavities containing an optical loop mirror on one cavity end and a bulk mirror or saturable absorber on the other end. The loop mirror can be further configured with an adjustable line phase delay to optimize modelocking. All intra-cavity fiber(s) can be polarization maintaining. Dispersion compensation components such as, e.g., dispersion compensation fibers, bulk diffraction gratings or fiber Bragg gratings may be included. The oscillators may include a bandpass filter to obtain high pulse energies when operating in the similariton regime. The oscillator output can be amplified and used whenever high power short pulses are required. For example the oscillators can be configured as frequency comb sources or supercontinuum sources. In conjunction with repetition rate modulation, applications include dual scanning delay lines and trace gas detection.
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29 Claims
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1. A passively mode locked fiber oscillator evolving from Q-switching, comprising:
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a Fabry-Perot cavity comprising; a nonlinear fiber amplifying loop mirror (NALM) at a first cavity end, said nonlinear loop mirror configured to allow the insertion of a linear phase delay along two propagation directions of said nonlinear loop mirror, wherein said passively mode locked fiber oscillator comprises polarization maintaining (PM) fiber. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A passively mode locked fiber oscillator evolving from Q-switching, comprising:
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a laser cavity comprising; a nonlinear fiber amplifying loop mirror, said nonlinear loop mirror configured to allow the insertion of a linear phase delay along two propagation directions of said nonlinear loop mirror, wherein said cavity is configured without any saturable absorber and is configured with polarization maintaining (PM) components in an all-PM or nearly all-PM configuration. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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