All-polarization-maintaining passively mode-locked Ho-doped fiber laser oscillator and amplifier based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror

Abstract

Our study reveals results from an all-polarization-maintaining Ho-doped fiber laser that is passively mode-locked, consisting of both an oscillator and an amplifier. A stable, self-starting, noise-like mode-locked pulse is achieved in the Ho-doped fiber laser oscillator based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror at a wavelength of 2.05 μm. The mode-locked oscillator achieves a peak output power of 20.2 mW, generating pulses with a duration of 284 ps and exhibiting a coherence peak at 690 fs. Moreover, with the use of Ho-doped fiber amplifier, the mode-locked pulse can reach a peak output of 1.05 W while maintaining a power stability of 1.43 % over the course of an hour. The highest pulse energy reaches approximately 333.6 nJ, which equates to a peak power of 1.18 kW. The polarization extinction ratio is approximately 24.9 dB.