公开(公告)号：US20140233089A1

公开(公告)日：2014-08-21

申请号：US14090374

申请日：2013-11-26

Applicant: IMRA America, Inc.

Inventor： Martin E. Fermann ,  Ingmar Hartl ,  Gennady Imeshev

IPC: H01S3/067 ,  H01S3/10

CPC classification number: H01S3/0057 ,  G02F1/3517 ,  G02F2001/3528 ,  H01S3/0078 ,  H01S3/0092 ,  H01S3/067 ,  H01S3/0675 ,  H01S3/06754 ,  H01S3/094042 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/105 ,  H01S3/1053 ,  H01S3/106 ,  H01S3/1067 ,  H01S3/109 ,  H01S3/1106 ,  H01S3/1118 ,  H01S3/1616

Abstract: Modelocked fiber laser resonators may be coupled with optical amplifiers. An isolator optionally may separate the resonator from the amplifier. A reflective optical element on one end of the resonator having a relatively low reflectivity may be employed to couple light from the resonator to the amplifier. Enhanced pulse-width control may be provided with concatenated sections of both polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining fibers. Apodized fiber Bragg gratings and integrated fiber polarizers may 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 grating to the inverse of the dispersion of the intra-cavity fiber. Frequency comb sources may be constructed from such modelocked fiber oscillators. Low dispersion and an in-line interferometer that provides feedback may assist in controlling the frequency components output from the comb source.

Abstract translation: 模式锁定光纤激光谐振器可以与光放大器耦合。 隔离器可选地可以将谐振器与放大器分离。 可以采用具有相对低的反射率的谐振器的一端上的反射光学元件来将来自谐振器的光耦合到放大器。 可以提供增强的脉冲宽度控制，其具有两个偏振保持和非偏振保持光纤的级联部分。 变形光纤布拉格光栅和集成光纤偏振器也可以包括在激光腔中，以帮助线性偏振空腔的输出。 可以通过将光栅的色散值与腔内光纤的色散相反来获得具有大的光学带宽的非常短的脉冲。 频率梳源可以由这种锁模光纤振荡器构成。 提供反馈的低色散和在线干涉仪可以有助于控制从梳状源输出的频率分量。