• DocumentCode
    2237185
  • Title

    Fiber laser pumped high average power single-cycle THz pulse source

  • Author

    Hoffmann, M.C. ; Yeh, K.-L. ; Hwang, H.Y. ; Sosnowski, T. ; Hebling, J. ; Nelson, Keith A.

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Single-cycle THz radiation was generated by optical rectification of Yb-fiber laser pulses with 250 fs duration and 10 muJ energy. We obtained an average power of 0.5 mW at 1 MHz repetition rate.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical pumping; THz pulse source; Yb-fiber laser pulses; energy 10 muJ; fiber laser pumped pulse source; optical rectification; power 0.5 mW; single-cycle THz radiation; time 250 fs; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency conversion; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics; (190.2620) Frequency conversion; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (260.3090) Physical optics, Infrared, far;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4571496