Sub-50 fs pulse generation from a high power Yb-doped fiber amplifier

Author

Deng, Yujun ; Chien, Ching-Yuan ; Fidric, Bernard G. ; Kafka, James D.

Author_Institution

Spectra-Phys. Lasers, Newport Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of 48 fs, 226 nJ pulses from an Yb-doped fiber amplifier with 18 W of average power. The system uses a simple stretcher-free, single-stage amplifier configuration. Gain fiber length and pump wavelength are chosen in order to achieve the optimum pulse width and pulse energy.

Keywords

laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; ytterbium; JkJk:Yb; energy 226 nJ; high-power fiber amplifier; optical pulse generation; optical pump wavelength; power 18 W; pulse energy; single-stage amplifier configuration; time 48 fs; time 50 fs; Bandwidth; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Pulse shaping methods; Space vector pulse width modulation; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (320.5520) Pulse compression;

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

5225427