Title :
All-fiber chirped pulse amplification with recompression in an air-core photonic bandgap fiber
Author :
de Matos, C.J.S. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Hansen, T.P. ; Hansen, K.P. ; Broeng, J.
Author_Institution :
Femtosecond Opt. Group, Imperial Coll., UK
Abstract :
We show all-fiber chirped pulse amplification using an air-core photonic bandgap fiber for recompression. 400 fs pulses at 1.55 /spl mu/m were stretched to several tens of picoseconds in a dispersion compensating fiber and recompressed down to /spl sim/1 ps.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; photonic band gap; 1.55 micron; 400 fs; air-core photonic bandgap fiber; dispersion compensating fiber; dispersion recompression; fiber chirped pulse amplification;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
