
Microfiber-Based Polarization Beam Splitter and Its Application For Passively Mode-Locked All-Fiber Laser
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Keywords
- polarization beam splitter
- nonlinear polarization evolution
- mode-locked fiber laser
Brief
The article proposes and demonstrates a compact, all-fiber polarization beam splitter (PBS) fabricated using a simple method based on coupled microfibers, and successfully applies it for passively mode-locking fiber lasers at 1.0 μm and 1.5 μm wavelength bands with performance comparable to systems using bulky PBSs.
Summary
This paper introduces an all-fiber polarization beam splitter (PBS) constructed from two parallel coupled microfibers. The authors note that commonly used PBSs are bulky and not truly all-fiber, and previous special-fiber-based PBSs require complex fabrication. The proposed microfiber-based PBS offers advantages such as simple fabrication, compact size, and variable polarization extinction ratio (PER) and operation bandwidth.
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