Design Optimization of Fiber Laser for Generation of Femtosecond Optical Pulses

The precise coordination of dispersion management, temperature control, mode-locking mechanisms, and gain medium qualities are required in the design and optimization of fiber laser cavities for the generation of femtosecond pulses. The performance and capacities of femtosecond fiber lasers are being enhanced by developments in these fields, opening up new uses for them. The main focus of this research work was to design a lasing cavity for the generation of femtosecond optical pulses. So, we designed a laser cavity having six segments with a total length of 5.4 meters. The first segment is a 100-centimeter-long single mode fiber (SMF), the second one is an active fiber (Yb doped fiber) which is 40-centimeter long, and the third segment is a 70-centimeter-long SMF.A 130 cm free space region(cavity) makes up the fourth segment, which include a collimator, mirror, grating, half wave plate, quarter wave plate, isolator, and polarized beam splitter (PBS). Single-mode fibers of 80 cm and 120 cm in length comprises the fifth and sixth sections respectively. The calculated repetition rate of the laser cavity is 37.06 MHz.. We used the software "Ultrafast Pulse Propagator Version 3.0.0", created by Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to accomplished this task. This application was initially created to examine fiber links, mode-locking, and fiber amplification. The physics of the code is based on the generalized non-linear Schrödinger equation, which includes high order dispersion, bandwidth, gain with restriction, saturation loss, and saturation absorption. For data visualization, this software uses FORTRAN code and MATLAB algorithms. The pulse width increased linearly from 1.2809 to 1.3227 Ps and the spectral width decreased linearly from 2.3841 to 2.2561 nm when the Yb doped fiber's length were changed between 5 and 50 cm. 94729 fs2 is the total dispersion from the 5.4 m long lasing cavity. In the end, we determined the pulses' repetition rate, which came out to be 37.0