Title :
Pulse distortion in saturated fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
Author :
Lali-Dastjerdi, Zohreh ; Ros, Francesco Da ; Rottwitt, Karsten ; Galili, Michael ; Peucheret, Christophe
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
Fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplification is experimentally compared for different chirped pulses in the picosecond regime. The amplified chirped pulses show distortion appearing as pedestals after recompression when the amplifier is operated in saturation.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical distortion; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical saturation; amplified chirped pulses; picosecond pulse; pulse distortion; pulse recompression; saturated fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; Chirp; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
