Passively Q-Switched Ytterbium- and Chromium-doped All-Fiber Laser

Bernard Dussardier (1) , Jerome Maria (1) , Pavel 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 chromium-doped saturable absorber fiber stabilizes an otherwise spontaneously chaotically self-pulsing ytterbium-doped fiber laser . This original passively Q-switched all-fiber laser produces sustained and relatively stable trains of smooth pulses at high repetition rate.

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

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

Bernard Dussardier, Jerome Maria, Pavel Peterka. Passively Q-Switched Ytterbium- and Chromium-doped All-Fiber Laser. Applied optics, 2011, 50 (25), Manuscript ID : 143929. ⟨10.1364/AO.50.000E20⟩. ⟨hal-00589246⟩