Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 7, 071403 (2020)
High-repetition-rate pulsed fiber laser based on virtually imaged phased array
Xuanjuan Chen1, Yuxin Gao2, Jiamin Jiang1, Meng Liu1,*, Aiping Luo1, Zhichao Luo1, and Wencheng Xu1,**

Author Affiliations

- 1Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- 2Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic College, Jining 272067, China
Abstract
High-repetition-rate (HRR) pulsed fiber lasers have attracted much attention in various fields. To effectively achieve HRR pulses in fiber lasers, dissipative four-wave-mixing mode-locking is a promising method. In this work, we demonstrated an HRR pulsed fiber laser based on a virtually imaged phased array (VIPA), serving as a comb filter. Due to the high spectral resolution and low polarization sensitivity features of VIPA, the 30 GHz pulse with high quality and high stability could be obtained. In the experiments, both the single-waveband and dual-waveband HRR pulses were achieved. Such an HRR pulsed fiber laser could have potential applications in related fields, such as optical communications.
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