Title :
Long-term stable passive synchronization of 50-μJ, 690-fs, 0.4-MHz Yb-doped fiber amplifier with a mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser
Author :
Yoshitomi, Dai ; Zhou, Xiangyu ; Kobayashi, Yohei ; Takada, Hideyuki ; Torizuka, Kenji
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
We report long-term stable passive synchronization of a 50-μJ, 690-fs, 0.4-MHz Yb-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplifier with a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser as long as 8 hours with a timing jitter of 42 fs.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre amplifiers; sapphire; solid lasers; synchronisation; timing jitter; titanium; ytterbium; Al2O3:Ti; Yb-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplifier; energy 50 muJ; frequency 0.4 MHz; long-term stable passive synchronization; mode-locked sapphire laser; time 690 fs; time 8 h; timing jitter; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Oscillators; Semiconductor lasers; Synchronization; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
