• DocumentCode
    499349
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5224429