Octave spanning supercontinuum from compact passively mode-locked Er:Yb:glass laser

Author

Zeller, S.C. ; Schlatter, A. ; Krainer, L. ; Spühler, G.J. ; Südmeyer, T. ; Keller, U. ; Okuno, Toshiaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., ETH Zurich, Zurich

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

By using a recently developed nonlinear fiber, we achieve octave-spanning spectrum directly from a diode-pumped passively mode-locked 250-fs Er:Yb:glass laser without any amplification stage. Applications for CEO phase stabilization and optical clocking are discussed.

Keywords

erbium; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibres; optical glass; optical pumping; solid lasers; supercontinuum generation; ytterbium; Er:Yb:glass laser; SiO₂:Er,Yb; carrier envelope offset phase stabilization; diode-pumped laser; nonlinear fiber; octave spanning supercontinuum; octave-spanning spectrum; optical clocking; passive mode-locking; time 250 fs; Atom optics; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Semiconductor diodes; Ultrafast optics; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627973

Filename

4627973