Mode-locked all-fiber laser producing radially polarized rectangular pulses

Opt Lett. 2015 Apr 15;40(8):1691-4. doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001691.

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a radially polarized mode-locked fiber laser through the use of a figure-8 cavity in combination with cascade fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The mode-locked laser emits rectangular pulses with width tunable from 2.8 to 23 ns under an increasing pump power at 1056.3 nm with 0.2-nm 30-dB linewidth. A polarization purity as high as 96% for the output transverse mode has been achieved simultaneously.