Wavelength and repetition rate tunable high peak power dissipative soliton resonance in an all polarization maintaining Yb-doped fiber laser

Abstract

High peak power dissipative soliton resonance (DSR) with tunable wavelength and flexible repetition rate is experimentally achieved based on an all polarization maintaining master oscillator power amplifier fiber laser. The figure-of-eight oscillator outputs DSR pulse at a fundamental repetition rate of 3.6 MHz with square-shaped temporal pulse duration of 600 ps. By adjusting the intracavity fiber filter, the center wavelength of the DSR pulse can be continuously changed from 1017 to 1042 nm. These wavelength and temporal duration tunable pulses are then coupled into an all-fiber pulse picker to gain another tuning freedom of repetition rate from 100 kHz to 3.6 MHz. Seeded by the flexible pulse, an two-stage all-fiber amplifier is used to boost the average power to 20 W with the polarization extinction ratio of 18.2 dB. After compression, a record pulse peak power of 1.91 MW is achieved at the repetition rate of 100 kHz with pulse duration of 55 ps.