Long- and short-term stability of all polarization maintaining thulium doped passively mode-locked fiber lasers with emissionwavelengths at 1,95 μm and 2,07 μm

Abstract

Abstract: In this work, we compare the operation of a passively modelocked polarization-maintaining emission in two thulium-doped fiber lasers pumped at 1561 nm, with emission at wavelengths of 1.951 m in one case and 2.07 m in the other. We obtained a sequence of light pulses at 15.6 MHz, whose temporal width was 81 ps at 1.95 m, and a sequence of light pulses at 13.1MHz, whose temporal width was 94 ps at 2.07 m. Finally, we also measured the long-term stability of this setup during a 24-h operation, as well as the short-term stability in a simulated harsh environment. The results confirm the superior performance of fiber laser systems with a fully polarization-maintaining design.