Title :
Tunable broadband source of femtosecond pulses in the 2 µm region
Author :
Klose, Andrew ; Maser, Daniel L. ; Ycas, Gabriel ; Diddams, Scott A.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
A polarization maintaining Er:fiber-based source of femtosecond pulses was constructed using a 250 MHz mode-locked oscillator, fiber amplifier, and highly nonlinear fiber. The system generated 35 fs pulses with power variation of 1.3% on a timescale of days.
Keywords :
erbium; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; femtosecond pulses; fiber amplifier; frequency 250 MHz; highly nonlinear fiber; mode-locked oscillator; polarization maintaining Er:fiber-based source; power variation; time 35 fs; tunable broadband source; wavelength 2 mum; Isolators; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission; Transforms; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
