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Dissipative dispersion-managed soliton 2 μm thulium/holmium fiber laser

Regina Gumenyuk, Ismo Vartiainen, Hemmo Tuovinen, Oleg G. Okhotnikov

Optics Letters · 2011 · 131 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

We report a first dissipative dispersive-managed soliton fiber laser operating at 2 μm. The cavity comprised of all-anomalous-dispersion fiber employs chirped fiber Bragg grating, which ensures net-normal cavity dispersion and semiconductor saturable absorber for mode-locking.

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