Title :
Spectral broadening of 50 fs Cr:YAG pulses around 1.5 /spl mu/m in the tapered fiber
Author :
Sorokin, Evgeni ; Naumov, Sergei ; Kalashnikov, Vladimir L. ; Sorokina, Irina T. ; Teipel, Jörn ; Meiser, Dominic ; Giessen, Harald
Author_Institution :
Inst. fuer Photonik, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
The spectral broadening of the 50 femtosecond pulses from the Cr:YAG laser at 1.5 /spl mu/m in a tapered fiber with 1.4 /spl mu/m taper waist diameter is observed. The broadening mechanism around the second dispersion zero is studied experimentally and numerically.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; chromium; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; solid lasers; spectral line broadening; yttrium compounds; 1.4 micron; 1.5 micron; Cr:YAG laser; YAG:Cr; YAl5O12:Cr; second dispersion zero; spectral broadening; tapered fiber; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Infrared spectra; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses; Power generation; Power lasers; Superluminescent diodes; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
