Optimizing the power efficiency of a SESAM fiber comb laser

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9712-4995
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433

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2017-05

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Wang, Shaokang, Curtis R. Menyuk, Stefan Droste, Laura Sinclair, Ian Coddington, and Nathan Newbury. “Optimizing the Power Efficiency of a SESAM Fiber Comb Laser.” In 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 1–2, 2017. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8083877.

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This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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Power generation
Laser modes
Semiconductor lasers
Couplings
Power lasers
Optimized production technology
Laser applications
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)

Abstract

The power efficiency of femtosecond fiber lasers with semiconductor saturable absorbers is limited by the wake instability. We computationally optimize the output power and efficiency by increasing the output coupling ratio and gain fiber length.