Large-mode-area soliton fiber oscillator mode-locked using NPE in an all-PM self-stabilized interferometer
Large-mode-area soliton fiber oscillator mode-locked using NPE in an all-PM self-stabilized interferometer
In this work, we investigate an approach to scale up the output pulse energy in an all polarization-maintaining 17 MHz Yb-doped fiber oscillator via implementation of 25 um core-diameter large-mode-area fibers. The artificial saturable absorber in form of a Kerr-type self-stabilized fiber-interferometer enables highly stable mode-locked steady-states in the soliton-like …