Power scaling of THz pulses based on a compact femtosecond photonic crystal fiber laser

Author

Liu, Feng ; Song, Youjian ; Hu, Minglie ; Li, Yanfeng ; Zhang, Weili ; Xing, Qirong ; Wang, Changlei ; Wang, Yuebin ; Chai, Lu ; Wang, Qingyue

Author_Institution

Ultrafast Laser Lab., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present a high power terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) pumped by an all photonic crystal fiber (PCF) femtosecond laser system, and studied the effects of pulse shape working on the terahertz conversion efficiency.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; microwave photonics; optical pulse shaping; photonic crystals; terahertz spectroscopy; terahertz wave generation; THz pulses; compact femtosecond photonic crystal fiber laser; femtosecond laser system; high-power terahertz time-domain spectroscopy; power scaling; pulse shape effects; terahertz conversion efficiency; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Photonic crystal fibers; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Shape; Spectroscopy; Time domain analysis; Golay Cell; PCF femtosecond laser; THz-TDS; compact terahertz system; optical rectification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292103

Filename

5292103