• DocumentCode
    733551
  • Title

    Reducing nonlinear limitations of Ytterbium mode-locked fibre lasers with hollow-core negative curvature fibre

  • Author

    Harvey, C.M. ; Yu, F. ; Knight, J.C. ; Wadsworth, W.J. ; Almeida, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Ultralow nonlinearity hollow-core negative curvature fibre is used in a mode-locked Ytterbium fibre laser to prevent the onset of pulse breakup at low repetition-rates. Identical pulse peak-power limit at 37MHz and 11MHz is experimentally demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; ytterbium; frequency 11 MHz; frequency 37 MHz; nonlinear limitation; pulse peak-power limit; repetition-rates; ultralow nonlinearity hollow-core negative curvature fibre; ytterbium mode-locked fibre lasers; Bragg gratings; Cavity resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Ytterbium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183991