All Polarization-Maintaining Passively Mode-Locked Yb-Doped Fiber Laser: Pulse Compression Using an Anomalous Polarization-Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fiber

We report the generation of short pulses at 1 μm using an all-polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber configuration. The pulses are provided by an all normal-dispersion Fabry-Perot Yb-doped cavity and are compressed with an anomalous polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM PCF). Opposed to standard configurations; here the filtering action is solely performed by the finite bandwidth of the gain medium. The laser generates 8 ps width sech2 profile pulses at 1046.8 nm with a -10 dB bandwidth of 5.9 nm. After compression using the PM PCF, pulses with an FWHM of 3 ps were obtained, limited by the actual value of the available anomalous dispersion. We also report the changes in the output light pulses when both the net-normal dispersion of the cavity and the medium gain length were varied. We found that the lack of a specific filter within the cavity does not deteriorate the performance as compared with previous works.Fil: Cuadrado Laborde, Christian Ariel. Universidad de Valencia; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario. Instituto de Física de Rosario. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Instituto de Física de Rosario; Argentina. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires"; ArgentinaFil: Carrascosa, Antonio. Universidad de Valencia; EspañaFil: Diez, Antonio. Universidad de Valencia; EspañaFil: Cruz, Jose Luis. Universidad de Valencia; EspañaFil: Andrés Bou, Miguel Vicente. Universidad de Valencia; Españ