Environmentally Stable Pulse Energy-Tunable Picosecond Fiber Laser.

We have reported a mode-locked pulse energy tunable ytterbium-doped fiber laser constructed by the polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers with a position-tunable focuser and a semiconductor-saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). The narrow bandwidth fiber Bragg grating in the cavity produces self-starting picosecond (ps) mode-locked operation. The linear laser cavity achieved tunable single pulse energy varied from 0.591 to 0.988 nJ, with a 24.7-MHz repetition rate and a 6.03-ps pulse duration at 1064.18 nm. High environmental stability is also confirmed by a high polarization extinction ratio over 17.8 dB. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]