Dispersion-managed all-fiber chirped-pulse amplifier yielding high-power clean sub-500-fs pulses at 1.5 μm

Author

Shirakawa, Akira ; Tanisho, Motoyuki ; Ueda, Ken Ichi

Author_Institution

Inst. for Laser Sci., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

All-fiber chirped-pulse amplification based on a large-mode-area Er:Yb-doped photonic-crystal fiber is presented. A dispersion-variable hybrid fiber stretcher compensates the peculiar dispersion of the hollow-core photonic-bandgap fiber compressor yielding transform-limited 440-fs pulses with 1-W average power.

Keywords

chirp modulation; erbium; high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; photonic crystals; ytterbium; JkJk:Er,Yb; all-fiber chirped-pulse amplification; dispersion-variable hybrid fiber stretcher; hollow-core photonic-bandgap fiber compressor; large-mode-area photonic-crystal fiber; power 1 W; time 440 fs; wavelength 1.5 mum; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Polarization mode dispersion; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers; (320.5520) Pulse compression;

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.2006.4628792

Filename

4628792