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Self-stabilized energy-scalable dissipative soliton fiber laser

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We report on the self-stabilized dissipative-soliton laser with an energy scalability by using a semi-conductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) as the pulse stabilizer for the first time. By tailoring the fluence on the SESAM relying on the two-photon absorption effect so that its reflectivity has a negative slope with respect to the fluence, the intra-cavity pulse dynamics is self-stabilized to produce single pulses only, resulting in a 48-nJ pulse energy and an unprecedented pump-to-output power conversion efficiency of 63%. Therefore, it resolves a long standing problem of the formation of multiple pulses in high-energy mode-locked lasers and thus opens a way to build high repetition-rate oscillators with ≥ microjoules pulse energies without any external amplifiers.

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  1. Laser Physics Laboratory and Department of Physics, Korea University, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Korea

    J. H. Kim, G. H. Jang & T. H. Yoon

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Kim, J.H., Jang, G.H. & Yoon, T.H. Self-stabilized energy-scalable dissipative soliton fiber laser. Laser Phys. 22, 207–211 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X11230083

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