Ytterbium- and chromium-doped fibre laser: from chaotic self-pulsing to passive Q-switching.

Bernard Dussardier (1) , Jerome Maria (1) , P. Peterka (2)

1 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée
2 UFE / CAS - Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

A spontaneously chaotic, self-pulsing ytterbium-doped fibre laser is partially stabilized into the passively Q-switched mode of operation using a chromium-doped saturable absorber fibre. This original all-fibre laser produces sustained and stable trains of smooth pulses at high repetition rate.

Mots clés: Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; Fiber Lasers; Q-switched lasers; Ytterbium; Chromium; Mode-locked lasers; Rare earth and transition metal solid-state lasers

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Optique / photonique

Bernard Dussardier, Jerome Maria, P. Peterka. Ytterbium- and chromium-doped fibre laser: from chaotic self-pulsing to passive Q-switching.. 20th International Laser Physics Workshop, Jul 2011, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ⟨hal-00589248⟩