All-Fiber Polarization-Maintaining Dispersion-Managed Figure-of-9 Mode-Locked Laser

Abstract

A dispersion-managed, figure-of-9, mode-locked ultrafast Yb-doped fiber laser is presented in this letter. The laser cavity employs a chirped fiber Bragg grating with a proper anomalous dispersion for intra-cavity dispersion compensation. The laser with large normal net dispersion delivers an output with maximum average power of 20 mW and pulse duration of 5.50 ps at the repetition rate of 39.1 MHz, and the pulse can be dechirped to 228 fs. While net dispersion of cavity is very close to zero, the laser delivers an output with an average power of 12 mW at the repetition rate of 47.3 MHz, and the pulse duration is 1.86 ps, which can be dechirped to 175 fs. The whole cavity is very compact and environmentally stable, for its all-polarization-maintaining and all-fiber structure.