Title :
Giant-chirp oscillators for short-pulse fiber amplifiers
Author :
Renninger, W.H. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
A dissipative-soliton oscillator can replace the oscillator, stretcher, pulse-picker, and pre-amplifier in a chirped-pulse fiber amplifier. 150-ps pulses at 3-MHz repetition rate are amplified to 1-muJ energy with pulse duration as short as 670 fs.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; chirped pulse; dissipative-soliton oscillator; energy 1 muJ; fiber amplifiers; frequency 3 MHz; giant-chirp oscillators; time 150 fs; time 670 fs; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical fiber theory; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Preamplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; (190.5530) Pulse propagation and temporal solitons; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
