High energy femtosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification system with adaptive phase control

Author

He, F. ; Hung, H.S.S. ; Daga, N.K. ; Naz, N. ; Prawiharjo, J. ; Price, J.H.V. ; Hanna, D.C. ; Shepherd, D.P. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Dawson, J.W. ; Siders, C.W. ; Barty, C.P.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., Southampton

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate threefold increased autocorrelation peak from an Yb-fiber CPA system operating with strong self-phase modulation by pre-shaping the pulse spectral-phase. The adaptive control loop used feedback from the output autocorrelation. High-quality 800 fs, 65 muJ recompressed pulses were produced.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; phase control; self-phase modulation; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; Yb-fiber CPA system; adaptive phase control; autocorrelation peak; energy 65 muJ; femtosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification; pulse recompression; pulse shaping; self-phase modulation; time 800 fs; Adaptive control; Adaptive systems; Autocorrelation; Chirp modulation; Feedback loop; Output feedback; Phase control; Programmable control; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fiber; (140.3510) Lasers, fibers; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571593