DocumentCode
1096707
Title
Femtosecond optical pulses
Author
Fork, R.L. ; Shank, Charles V. ; Yen, R. ; Hirlimann, C.A.
Author_Institution
AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Volume
19
Issue
4
fYear
1983
fDate
4/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
500
Lastpage
506
Abstract
Recent advances in generation, amplification, compression, and frequency broadening of femtosecond optical pulses are reviewed. We describe use of colliding pulse mode locking to generate pulses of 65 fs duration and pulse compression to reduce those pulse durations to 30 fs. Amplification of femtosecond pulses to gigawatt powers and frequency broadening to obtain white light continuum pulses while retaining femtosecond pulse durations are also examined.
Keywords
Mode locked lasers; Optical pulse amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Ring lasers; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9197
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JQE.1983.1071898
Filename
1071898
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