Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers Operated in a Strong Normal Dispersion Regime at Low Repetition Rate

We report on a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with a repetition rate as low as 1.2 MHz in a strong normal dispersion regime. The laser was mode locked via spectral filtering. It generated a pulse with large and linear chirp that can be dechirped to 430 fs outside the cavity.