摘要
Weexperimentallydemonstrateforthefirsttime,tothebestofourknowledge,anall-fiberpassivelymode-lockedlaseroperationbasedonthenonlinearmultimodeinterferenceofstep-indexmultimodefiber.Suchastructurecouplesthelightinandoutofthemultimodefiberviasingle-modefibers,anditsphysicalmechanismsforsaturableabsorptionhavebeenanalyzedtheoreticallybasedonthethird-ordernonlinearKerreffectofmultimodefiber.Usingthenonlinearmultimodeinterferencestructurewith48.8mmlengthstep-indexmultimodefiber,themodulationdepthhasbeenmeasuredtobe~5%.Thepassivelymode-lockedlaseroutputpulseshaveacentralwavelengthof1596.66nm,bandwidthof2.18nm,pulsewidthof~625fs,andfundamentalrepetitionrateof8.726MHz.Furthermore,theinfluenceoftotalcavitydispersionontheopticalspectrum,pulsewidth,andoutputpowerisinvestigatedsystematicallybyaddingdifferentlengthsofsingle-modefiberanddispersioncompensationfiberinthelasercavity.
出版日期
2018年11月21日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)