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Kiyotaka SASAGAWA Kazushi KUSAWAKE Keiichiro KAGAWA Jun OHTA Masahiro NUNOSHITA
Self-pulsation of Nd3+-doped fluoride fiber laser is experimentally and theoretically demonstrated using a Tm3+-doped fluoride fiber pumped at 808 nm as a saturable absorber. Self-pulsation at finite pump power predicted by linear stability analysis is confirmed through experiments, achieving a pulse width and peak power of 4.5µs and 1.5mW when the Nd3+-doped fiber was pumped at 230mW.