Title :
Generation of High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Pulse Trains with a High Finesse External Fabry-Perot Cavity
Author :
Chen, J. ; Sickler, J.W. ; Wilken, T. ; Fendel, P. ; Holzwarth, R. ; Hänsch, T.W. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Kärtner, F.X.
Author_Institution :
Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge
Abstract :
Generation of 130-fs pulse trains at 1560 nm with 1 GHz repetition rate is demonstrated by locking a fundamentally mode-locked 200 MHz repetition rate fiber laser to a high finesse (F=2100) external Fabry-Perot cavity.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; frequency 200 MHz; high finesse external Fabry-Perot cavity; high repetition rate femtosecond pulse train generation; mode-locked fiber laser; repetition rate; time 130 fs; wavelength 1560 nm; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Pulse generation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2007 Digest of the
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0926-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1099-4742
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2007.4288388
