WO2005048417A3 - Pulsed laser sources - Google Patents

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WO2005048417A3
WO2005048417A3 PCT/US2004/038652 US2004038652W WO2005048417A3 WO 2005048417 A3 WO2005048417 A3 WO 2005048417A3 US 2004038652 W US2004038652 W US 2004038652W WO 2005048417 A3 WO2005048417 A3 WO 2005048417A3
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Abstract

Various embodiments include modelocked fiber laser (see fig.4 Character 401) resonators that may be coupled with optical amplifiers (402). An isolator (441) may separate the laser resonator from the amplifier, although certain embodiments exclude such an isolator. A reflective optical element (413, 114, 115) on one end of the resonator having a relatively low reflectivity may be employed to couple light from the laser resonator to the amplifier. Enhanced pulse-width control (407) may be provided with concatenated sections of both polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining fibers. Apodized fiber Bragg gratings (407) and integrated fiber polarizers may be also be included in the laser cavity to assist in linearly polarizing the output of the cavity. Very short pulses with a large optical bandwidth may be obtained by matching the dispersion value of the fiber Bragg grating to the inverse of the dispersion of the intra-cavity fiber. Frequency comb sources may be constructed from such modelocked fiber oscillators (401). In various exemplary embodiments, low dispersion and an in-line interferometer that provides feedback, assist in controlling the frequency components output from the comb source.
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