• DocumentCode
    2232164
  • Title

    High-fidelity 165-fs 5-μJ pulses from an integrated ytterbium fiber system

  • Author

    Fernandez, Alicia ; Verhoef, A.J. ; Jespersen, K. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Galvanauskas, A. ; Baltuska, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Energy scaling of μJ fs pulses from monolithic YDFAs is limited by pulse pedestal formation. We demonstrate a chirped-pulse fiber-amplifier that uses a newly developed dispersion compensating fiber stretcher matching the dispersion of a grating pair.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; integrated optics; optical dispersion; optical fibre amplifiers; ytterbium compounds; chirped pulse fiber amplifier; dispersion compensating fiber stretcher; energy 5 muJ; energy scaling; high fidelity pulses; integrated ytterbium fiber system; monolithic YDFA; pulse pedestal formation; time 165 fs; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optimized production technology; Phase measurement; Pulse measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950314