Title :
Quarter-harmonic generation of femtosecond pulses at 4.18 μm from a mode-locked Yb:Fiber laser
Author :
Marandi, Alireza ; Ingold, Kirk A. ; Byer, Robert L.
Author_Institution :
E.L. Ginzton Lab., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report generation of 104 mW of 110-fs pulses at 4.18 μm using two cascaded sub-harmonic PPLN-based optical parametric oscillators pumped by a 950-mW Yb:fiber mode-locked laser at 250 MHz with expected intrinsic phase-locking.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; lithium compounds; niobium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase locked loops; optical pumping; ytterbium; LiNbO3; cascaded subharmonic PPLN-based optical parametric oscillators; femtosecond pulses; frequency 250 MHz; intrinsic phase-locking; mode-locked ytterbium:fiber laser; power 104 mW; power 950 mW; quarter-harmonic generation; time 110 fs; wavelength 4.18 mum; Cavity resonators; Correlation; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
