High-power, single-mode picosecond fiber laser based on amplification of a passively mode-locked 1055-nm VECSEL

Author

Dupriez, P. ; Malinowski, A. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Jeong, Y. ; Nilsson, J. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Foreman, H.D. ; Wilcox, K.G. ; Tropper, A.C. ; Morier-Genoud, F. ; Keller, U. ; Roberts, J.S.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

4.6 ps pulses at 910 MHz produced by a passively mode-locked VECSEL were amplified by ytterbium doped fiber amplifiers to average powers greater than 200 W and subsequently compressed to 430 fs duration.

Keywords

laser beams; laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; surface emitting lasers; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; frequency 910 MHz; high-power laser; passively mode-locked VECSEL; picosecond laser; single-mode fiber laser; time 4.6 ps; time 430 fs; vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser; wavelength 1055 nm; ytterbium doped fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Surface emitting lasers; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (140.5960) Semiconductor Laser;

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.2006.4628025

Filename

4628025