Mode-locked fiber lasers are compact, alignment-free and low-cost sources of optical pulses, and finding various applications including imaging, spectroscopy, and metrology.

В© 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement 1. Based on this strategy, we present a polarization-maintaining picosecond Yb fiber laser mode-locked by a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror whose excess noise is equal to the shot noise at an optical power of >10вЂ…mW. We demonstrate that excess intensity noise of soliton fiber lasers in the average power regime exceeding 10вЂ…mW can be reduced by increasing the intracavity dispersion and reducing the pump power. Note: Author names will be searched in the keywords field, also, but that may find papers where the person is mentioned, rather than papers they authored.

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