All-fiber Mamyshev oscillator enabled by chirped fiber Bragg gratings

Opt Lett. 2020 Jun 15;45(12):3317-3320. doi: 10.1364/OL.396218.

Abstract

We present a linear cavity self-polarizing Mamyshev oscillator at 1550 nm made fully of polarization-maintaining fibers. The cavity filters are chirped fiber Bragg gratings with a Gaussian reflectivity profile that allow for greater reflectivity, larger bandwidth, and dispersion control. This mode-locked fiber laser architecture shows an unprecedented simplicity while delivering 21.3-nJ pulses compressed to 108 fs with a competitive 22.3% pump conversion efficiency. Mode locking is initiated with an external saturable absorber mirror. Numerical simulations show how nonlinearity can be managed with highly dispersive filters inside a Mamyshev oscillator.