• DocumentCode
    3003434
  • Title

    High Average Power, High Energy, Femto-second Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System

  • Author

    He, F. ; Price, J.H.V. ; Malinowski, A. ; Piper, A. ; Ibsen, M. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Dawson, J.W. ; Siders, C.W. ; Britten, J.A. ; Barty, C.P.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Southampton, Southampton
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We have demonstrated an Yb-fiber laser system incorporating a CFBG stretcher, bandwidth optimised amplifiers and dielectric grating compressor. The system produced 135 W average power with pulse energy of 13.5 muJ. The recompressed pulse duration was 360 fs.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre amplifiers; CFBG stretcher; bandwidth optimised amplifiers; chirped-fiber-Bragg-grating stretcher; dielectric grating compressor; femtosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification system; pulse duration; pulse energy; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Pulse power systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452508
  • Filename
    4452508