Journal article
Monolithic Highly Stable Yb-Doped Femtosecond Fiber Lasers for Applications in Practical Biophotonics
Operational and environmental stability of ultrafast laser systems is critical for their applications in practical biophotonics. Mode-locked fiber lasers show great promise in applications such as supercontinuum sources or multiphoton microscopy systems. Recently, substantial progress has been made in the development of all-fiber nonlinear-optical laser control schemes, which resulted in the demonstration of highly stable monolithic, i.e., not containing any free-space elements, lasers with direct fiber-end delivery of femtosecond pulses.
This paper provides an overview of the progress in the development of such all-fiber mode-locked lasers based on Yb-fiber as gain medium, operating at the wavelength around 1 $\mu$m, and delivering femtosecond pulses reaching tens of nanojoules of energy.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 1439-1450 |
ISSN: | 15584542 and 1077260x |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2183580 |
ORCIDs: | Lægsgaard, Jesper |
Fiber lasers Laser stabilization Photonics crystal fibers Pulse compression Ultrafast lasers Ultrafast processes in fibers
Cavity resonators Dispersion Fiber gratings Laser applications Laser mode locking Laser stability all-fiber mode-locked lasers all-fiber nonlinear-optical laser control schemes bio-optics femtosecond pulses fibre lasers gain medium high-speed optical techniques laser applications in medicine laser mode locking laser stability laser stabilization mode-locked fiber lasers monolithic highly stable Yb-doped femtosecond fiber lasers nonlinear optics optical control photonics crystal fibers practical biophotonics pulse compression ultrafast laser systems ultrafast lasers ultrafast processes in fibers ytterbium