Title :
Scaling mode-locked fiber lasers to high energies using chirally-coupled core fiber
Author :
Lefrançois, Simon ; Wise, Frank W. ; Sosnowski, Thomas S. ; Liu, Chi-Hung ; Galvanauskas, Almantas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report energy scaling of mode-locked fiber lasers using chirally-coupled core fiber. Pulse energies above 40 nJ dechirping below 200 fs are demonstrated, as well as dechirped durations around 100 fs at pump-limited energies.
Keywords :
chirality; chirp modulation; fibre lasers; holey fibres; laser mode locking; optical pumping; chirally-coupled core fiber; energy scaling; fiber pulse energies; pump-limited energies; scaling mode-locked fiber lasers; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
