The application discloses a GHz high-repetition 9-shaped cavity mode-locked
fiber laser and a starting method thereof, and particularly relates to the technical field of ultrafast
laser, a nonlinear amplification ring mirror, and an auxiliary starting light path arranged outside the nonlinear amplification ring mirror and used in a mode-locked starting stage; the auxiliary starting light path comprises a second reflector, a focusing lens and a
semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The GHz high-repetition 9-shaped cavity mode-locked
fiber laser and the starting method thereof have the advantages that by introducing an external and separable auxiliary starting light path, seed light with
high peak power is formed in the starting stage, the problem that a
nonlinear phase shift difference of an extremely short cavity length is insufficient to cause mode-locked difficulty is effectively solved, stable
mode locking of GHz-level repetition frequency pulse output is realized, in a steady-state operation stage, the laser completely relies on the nonlinear amplification ring mirror with
low noise and high stability to realize
mode locking, and high-stability, low-
noise and repetition frequency ≥1GHz pulse output is obtained.