Extreme chirped pulse amplification (X-CPA) using semiconductor gain media

Author

Kim, Kyungbum ; Lee, Shinwook ; Delfyett, Peter J., Jr.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opt., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

487

Abstract

In this paper, the extreme pulse stretching and compression using chirped FBG is characterized with a novel modelocked semiconductor oscillator. In addition, the concept of XCPA is verified by studying the gain saturation behavior with and without the stretching of an optical pulse, and is compared experimentally and theoretically using the gain flattened mode-locked and semiconductor optical amplifiers as the gain elements.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; laser mode locking; optical pulse compression; quantum well lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; chirped FBG; extreme chirped pulse amplification; gain elements; gain flattened mode-locked semiconductor laser; gain saturation behavior; modelocked semiconductor oscillator; optical pulse compression; optical pulse stretching; semiconductor gain media; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Image coding; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252886

Filename

1252886