Title :
Designer femtosecond pulse shaping using grating-engineered quasi-phasematching in lithium niobate
Author :
Kornaszewski, L. ; Kohler, M. ; Reid, D.T. ; Sapaev, U.K.
Author_Institution :
Ultrafast Opt. Group, Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh
Abstract :
Tailored femtosecond pulses with fully engineered intensity and phase profiles are demonstrated using second-harmonic generation of an Er:fiber laser in an aperiodically-poled lithium niobate crystal. The profiles created include square, stepped, double and triple pulses.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical pulse shaping; JkJk:Er; LiNbO3; aperiodically-poled lithium niobate crystal; erbium doped fiber laser; femtosecond pulse shaping; grating-engineered quasiphasematching; phase profiles; second-harmonic generation; tailored femtosecond pulses; Fiber nonlinear optics; Gratings; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics; (320.5540) Pulse shaping; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;
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
