Unm Rainforest Innovations

Hanieh Afkhamiardakani

Jean-Claude M Diels

Apparatus, systems, and methods for a bidirectional mode-locked all-polarization maintaining fiber laser with two counter-propagating, orthogonally polarized pulses are applicable in a variety of applications. A mode-locked fiber laser can be realized with a laser cavity including a first polarization maintaining gain fiber, a second polarization maintaining gain fiber, and a saturable absorber. The saturable absorber can be arranged with the first polarization maintaining gain fiber and the second polarization maintaining gain fiber to generate two counter-propagating pulses, being orthogonally polarized with respect to each other. The laser cavity can include a circulator arranged to provide separate paths for the two counter-propagating pulses in a portion of the fiber laser cavity.

Fiber laser with two counter-propagating, orthogonally polarized pulses for high precision metrology

A nonlinear transmission system comprising a polarization maintaining (PM) fiber and a polarizer, based on the extreme sensitivity of the state of polarization of transmitted light on various parameters, such as the temperature, the optical power input to the fiber. Passive stabilization is achieved by simply terminating the PM fiber by a polarizer at a selected angle. Active stabilization of the optical length of the PM fiber is achieved by feeding back the transmitted into the control of optical power sent through the fiber.

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Hanieh Afkhamiardakani