Designer femtosecond pulse shaping using grating-engineered quasi-phasematching in lithium niobate

Author

Kornaszewski, L. ; Kohler, M. ; Reid, D.T. ; Sapaev, U.K.

Author_Institution

Ultrafast Opt. Group, Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Tailored femtosecond pulses with fully engineered intensity and phase profiles are demonstrated using second-harmonic generation of an Er:fiber laser in an aperiodically-poled lithium niobate crystal. The profiles created include square, stepped, double and triple pulses.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical pulse shaping; JkJk:Er; LiNbO₃; aperiodically-poled lithium niobate crystal; erbium doped fiber laser; femtosecond pulse shaping; grating-engineered quasiphasematching; phase profiles; second-harmonic generation; tailored femtosecond pulses; Fiber nonlinear optics; Gratings; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics; (320.5540) Pulse shaping; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

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

4572126