Octave-spanning spectrum from a diode-pumped Yb:KYW fs-laser by nonlinear broadening

Author

Meyer, S.A. ; Squire, J.A. ; Diddams, S.A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

A Yb:KYW femtosecond laser pumped by single-mode fiber Bragg grating stabilized laser diodes is built and characterized. The output spectrum of the laser and the continuum obtained after broadening in nonlinear microstructured fiber, normalized to different scales were measured and presented. The resulting octave-spanning spectrum, with peaks at 675 nm and 1350 nm, should enable measurement of the carrier-envelope offset frequency and self-referencing.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; potassium compounds; solid lasers; ytterbium; ytterbium compounds; KYbWO₄:Yb; carrier-envelope offset frequency; femtosecond laser; nonlinear broadening; nonlinear microstructured fiber; octave-spanning spectrum; output spectrum; self-referencing; single-mode fiber Bragg grating stabilized laser diodes; wavelength 1350 nm; wavelength 675 nm; Diodes; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4387067

Filename

4387067