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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
May. 23, 2011
Applicants:
Shibin Jiang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Qing Wang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jihong Geng, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tao Luo, Tucson, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Shibin Jiang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Qing Wang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jihong Geng, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tao Luo, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
AdValue Photonics, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/30 (2006.01); H01S 3/113 (2006.01); H01S 3/098 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A mode-locked fiber laser comprising a multicomponent glass fiber doped with a trivalent rare-earth ion of thulium and/or holmium and including a fiber-optic based passive saturable absorber that contains an adhesive material mixed with a saturable absorbing components and is disposed along the length of an optical fiber such as to assure that a mode propagating within the fiber spatially overlaps with the volume occupied by the saturable absorbing components.