Dissipative soliton fiber laser mode-locked with a resonant InGaAs-based saturable absorber mirror

We report on the successful operation of a dissipative soliton fiber laser mode-locked with a bulk InGaAsbased saturable absorber mirror forming a resonant micro-cavity. Highly-chirped pulses with several nanojoules of energy are thus produced. Remarkably, the laser performances in terms of output power and amplitude stability are comparable to those obtained with their multiple-quantum-well-based counterparts. This study suggests that this simplified approach for saturable absorbers mirrors can be considered as a promising alternative regarding ultrafast optics applications.