[11a-Z16-1~9] 4.3 Lasers and laser materials processing

▲ [11a-Z16-8] All-fiber Mode-locking Laser using Low-V-number Fiber with enhanced Polarization Dependent Loss

〇(M2)Yunpeng Huang¹, Hongbo Jiang¹, Zihao Zhao¹, Takuma Shirahata¹, Lei Jin¹, Sze Yun Set¹, Shinji Yamashita¹ (1.The University of Tokyo)

Keywords:mode-locking, polarization dependent loss, fiber laser

We propose and demonstrate, for the first time, a stable all-fiber thulium-doped mode-locked laser using a low-V-number fiber to generate a sufficient amount of polarization dependent loss for nonlinear polarization rotation.