© 2019 Optical Society of America. A long-cavity passively mode-locked thulium-doped all-fiber laser is reported incorporating a tapered acousto-optic tunable bandpass filter (AOTBF). The operation of the AOTBF relies on the intermodal coupling between core and cladding modes when a flexural acoustic wave propagates along an 80 μm tapered fiber. The filter works in transmission and exhibits a 3 dB bandwidth of 9.02 nm with an insertion loss of 3.4 dB. The laser supports ultrashort pulse generation at a low repetition rate of 784.93 kHz. Optical pulses with 2.43 nm of optical bandwidth and 2.1 ps pulse duration were obtained in a broad tuning range from 1824.77 to 1905.16 nm.
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Hernández-Escobar, E., Bello-Jiménez, M., Camarillo-Avilés, A., López-Estopier, R., Pottiez, O., Hernández-Arriaga, M. V., … Andrés, M. V. (2019). Broadband tuning of a long-cavity all-fiber mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser using an acousto-optic bandpass filter. Optics Letters, 44(17), 4183. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.44.004183
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