Title :
In-line high energy Yb fiber laser based chirped pulse amplifier system
Author :
Hartl, I. ; Imeshev, G. ; Fermann, M.E.
Author_Institution :
IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
Chirped-pulse amplification of a modelocked Yb fiber laser in a large mode-area polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber using a nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg-grating stretcher is demonstrated. Pulses with 8 nm bandwidth are amplified to 43 /spl mu/J and 1000x recompressed to 900 fs.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; light polarisation; nonlinear optics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; ytterbium; 43 muJ; 8 nm; 900 fs; chirped pulse amplifier system; mode-area polarization-maintaining Yb-fiber; modelocked Yb fiber laser; nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg-grating stretcher; Autocorrelation; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
