The Design of >2000-nm, ∼100-MHz Ultrafast Tm-Doped Fiber Soliton Laser Source

• DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2021.3130405
• Publication Date: 2021-11-24T20:32:08Z
• Authors: Jingcheng Shang; Shengzhi Zhao; Yizhou Liu; Yuefeng Zhao; Yuzhi Song; Tao Li; Tianli Feng
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy

Abstract We firstly propose a roadmap for the design of high repetition rate (~100 MHz) Tm-doped ultrafast fiber laser with an emission wavelength above 2000 nm. This roadmap is confirmed by both theoretical simulation and experimental verification. The designed Tm-doped fiber oscillator not only operates in continuous wave regime with a broad tunable wavelength range of ~ 100 nm, but also in mode-locking regime with an emission wavelength > 2000 nm (up to 2020 nm). A 470-fs laser pulse with a pulse repetition rate of ~96 MHz and the maximum average power of 50 mW are achieved at the output wavelength of 2007 nm, matching well with the theoretical prediction. In a further step, the seed laser pulse is amplified to 3.3 W, accompanied by a Raman frequency shift of the output wavelength to 2346 nm. The homogeneous intense broadband spectrum with a bandwidth of 240-nm centered at 2200 nm is also observed.