Title :
Temporal shaping of Parabolic chirped pulses with 27 dB extinction ratio for fiber chirped pulse amplification systems
Author :
Nguyen, Dat ; Piracha, Mohammad Umar ; Mandridis, Dimitrios ; Delfyett, Peter J.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
A novel temporal pulse shaping technique for chirped pulses is presented. Parabolic pulses with residual error of less than 5% and signal to noise ratio of 27dB is achieved, ideal for chirped pulse amplification applications.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse shaping; fiber chirped pulse amplification; parabolic chirped pulses; parabolic pulses; residual error; temporal pulse shaping; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Modulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4