Core-pumped femtosecond Nd:fiber laser at 910 and 935 nm

Abstract

We report a core-pumped all-normal dispersion mode-locked Nd-doped fiber laser at 910 and 935 nm. The pulse is compressed to 198 fs, and the pulse energy is 1.3 nJ. The slope efficiency is more than 14%. This laser is tested as the optical source for the two-photon fluorescence imaging of pollen.