Tunable femtosecond Cherenkov fiber laser

Author

Xiaomin Liu ; Svane, Ask Sebastian ; Laegsgaard, Jesper ; Haohua Tu ; Boppart, Stephen ; Turchinovich, Dmitry

Author_Institution

DTU Fotonik, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

218

Lastpage

221

Abstract

We demonstrate electrically-tunable femtosecond Cherenkov fiber laser output at the visible range. Using an all-fiber, self-starting femtosecond Yb-doped fiber laser as the pump source and nonlinear photonic crystal fiber link as the wave-conversion medium, ultrafast, milliwatt-level, tunable and spectral isolated Cherenkov radiation at visible wavelengths are reported. Such a femtosecond Cherenkov laser source is promising for practical biophotonics applications.

Keywords

bio-optics; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; laser tuning; nonlinear optics; photonic crystals; ytterbium; Cherenkov radiation; biophotonics; electrically-tunable femtosecond Cherenkov fiber laser; nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; pump source; wave-conversion medium; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics; Femtosecond lasers; Photonic crystal fibers; Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fuzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5454-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAIT.2014.7019556

Filename

7019556