Title :
Amplification of femtosecond pulses in two-stage chirped pulse amplification system based on large mode area photonic bandgap fibres
Author :
Gaponov, D.A. ; Fevrier, S. ; Roy, P. ; Daniault, L. ; Hanna, M. ; Druon, F. ; Georges, P. ; Likhachev, M.E. ; Aleshkina, S.S. ; Salganskii, M.Y. ; Yashkov, M.V. ; Guryanov, A.N.
Author_Institution :
Xlim, Univ. of Limoges, Limoges, France
Abstract :
The use of 40 μm diameter core Yb-doped Bragg fibers in two-stage CPA system is reported with maximum amplified pulse energy limited by the experimental set-up only. 82 W average output power before compression from photonic bandgap fiber was obtained.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; optical pulse compression; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; Yb-doped Bragg fibers; femtosecond pulse amplification; large mode area photonic bandgap fibres; optical pulse compression; size 40 mum; two-stage chirped pulse amplification; Correlation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Shape; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621538
