Supercontinuum comb generated by soliton molecule pulse laser injecting into a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

Renlai Zhou; Shijie  Chen; Qian Li; H. Y.  Fu; Kaliyaperumal Nakkeeran

doi:10.1016/j.optlastec.2022.107884

Supercontinuum comb generated by soliton molecule pulse laser injecting into a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

Renlai Zhou^* (Corresponding Author), Shijie Chen, Qian Li^* (Corresponding Author), H. Y. Fu, Kaliyaperumal Nakkeeran

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Very first time, we experimentally demonstrated the generation of supercontinuum (SC) comb by pumping a tunable soliton molecule fiber laser output signal into a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM). SC signals with different comb-teeth structures were obtained by controlling the pump power and waveplate orientation of the polarization-maintained soliton molecule fiber laser. The maximum achieved output powers of dual SC combs from two ports were 21.95 (output 1) and 3.75 mW (output 2), respectively. The spectral and temporal profiles of the SC comb were compared with the simulation results and the first-order coherence was evaluated. Our experiment provides a novel technique for the generation of SC signal with various comb-teeth structures that can be utilized in broadband spectrometers and full-field 3D metrology.

Original language	English
Article number	107884
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics and Laser Technology
Volume	150
Early online date	5 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2022.107884
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2022

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This work is financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61805281); Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (2019A1515010732).

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Supercontinuum comb
soliton molecule
mode-locked fiber laser
nonlinear optics

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Supercontinuum comb generated by soliton molecule pulse laser injecting into a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

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