• DocumentCode
    2991418
  • Title

    Gigahertz Parabolic Pulse Generation in a High-Power Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Amplifier Seeded by a Passively Mode-Locked VECSEL

  • Author

    Dupriez, P. ; Wilcox, K.G. ; Finot, C. ; Malinowski, A. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Tropper, A.C. ; Nilsson, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1 BJ, U.K., pad@orc.soton.ac.uk
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Fiber amplification of sub-picosecond pulses at 1.1 GHz produced by a passively mode-locked VECSEL enabled the generation of parabolic pulses with average power exceeding 50 W. Clean pulse compression down to 110 fs was demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    Doped fiber amplifiers; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801170
  • Filename
    4801170