Ultrashot pulse fiber laser

US9735533B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY · DE

Inventors

• Damian Barre · Hamburg, DE
• Franz Kärtner · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 12, 2016
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 12, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S2301/08
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention is a passively mode-locked ultrashort pulse fiber laser for generating ultrashort laser pulses, including a resonator in a figure-of-eight configuration, wherein the resonator has a main ring and a secondary ring optically coupled thereto designed as a non-linear Sagnac interferometer, and wherein the main ring and the secondary ring are constructed of polarization-maintaining optical fibers, and the main ring and/or secondary ring have a fiber section designed as a laser-active medium, wherein the laser-active medium is optically pumped through an externally-coupled pump light source which is also comprised, wherein the ultrashort pulse fiber laser is developed in that a separate optical unit is provided in the resonator as a dispersion compensation unit for compensating a group delay dispersion of the ultrashort laser pulses.