Obtaining More Energetic Modelocked Pulses From a SESAM Fiber Laser

Published

July 6, 2020

Author(s)

Nathan Newbury, Laura Sinclair, Ian Coddington, Stefan Droste, Shaokang Wang, chaoran Tu, Seyed E. Jamali, Thomas Carruthers, Curtis Menyuk

Abstract

Increasing the output power by increasing the pulse energy without increasing the noise level or decreasing the bandwidth is a major optimization goal for femtosecond fiber lasers that produce frequency combs. Here, we perform a computational study to optimize the cavity design of a femtosecond fiber laser that is passively modelocked with a semiconductor saturable absorbing mirror (SESAM). We use dynamical methods that are orders of magnitude faster computationally than standard evolutionary methods. We show that we can obtain higher pulse energies and hence higher output powers by simultaneously increasing the output coupling ratio, the gain, and the anomalous group delay dispersion. The output pulse has many times the energy of the pulse in the current experimental design with no penalty in the noise level or bandwidth.

Citation

Optics Express

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Journals

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Keywords

frequency comb, fiber laser

Citation

Newbury, N. , Sinclair, L. , Coddington, I. , Droste, S. , Wang, S. , Tu, C. , Jamali, S. , Carruthers, T. and Menyuk, C. (2020), Obtaining More Energetic Modelocked Pulses From a SESAM Fiber Laser, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930093 (Accessed October 10, 2025)