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Fission free high-energy mode-locked soliton generation in an all-polarization-maintaining fiber laser

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By employing a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror into an all-polarization-maintaining fiber laser, the effective evolution length of high-energy pulses is shorter than the soliton fission length. A stable self-starting mode-locked soliton fiber laser delivers 1.19 nJ high-energy soliton free of soliton fission, which is confirmed both in spectral and temporal domain measurements. A seventh-order soliton with an estimated energy of 4.47 nJ is able to stably oscillate in the laser resonator. Two segments symmetrically placed gain fibers can be pumped independently, providing a large gain with a large power tuning range. In general, the results obtained here can be used for other wavelengths, and, in principle, can circumvent the limitation on the soliton laser output energy.

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National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB1102404); The Scientific Research Foundation of National Institute of Metrology,China.

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    Jikun Yan, Yu Chen, Shaozhen Liu, Le Huang, Tao Cao, Kailin Hu, Zhihong Liu, Zhou Li, Qi Xu & Ziyue Guo

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Yan, J., Chen, Y., Liu, S. et al. Fission free high-energy mode-locked soliton generation in an all-polarization-maintaining fiber laser. Appl. Phys. B 128, 119 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07842-7

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