PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED YTTERBIUM AND CHROMIUM ALL-FIBRE 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 fibre stabilizes an otherwise spontaneously chaotic ytterbium- doped fibre laser. This original passively Q-switched all-fibre laser produces sustained and stable trains of smooth pulses at high repetition rate.

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

Bernard Dussardier, Jerome Maria, Pavel Peterka. PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED YTTERBIUM AND CHROMIUM ALL-FIBRE LASER. 10th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Dec 2010, Guwahati, India. ⟨hal-00732319⟩