Application of Amplified Femtosecond Ytterbium Fiber Laser for the THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

Author

Balakin, A.V. ; Nazarov, M.M. ; Okhotnikov, O.G. ; Ozheredov, I.A. ; Sapozhnikov, D.A. ; Shkurinov, A.P.

Author_Institution

M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

247

Abstract

We report the application of a newly developed femtosecond fiber laser for the THz time-domain spectroscopy. Ytterbium doped fiber was used for generation of laser pulses at wavelength 1.06 mum with the further amplification. The use of novel SESAM (semiconductor saturable absorber mirror) device made it possible to get pulse duration less than 200 fs on the 3 average power up to 1 W at the 50 MHz pulse repetition rate. We analyze the nonlinear and semiconductor devices optimal for the generation and electro optical detection of THz pulses in the time-domain systems based on the femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser.

Keywords

fibre lasers; mirrors; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; submillimetre wave spectroscopy; ytterbium; THz pulses; THz time-domain spectroscopy; amplified femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser; electro optical detection; laser pulse generation; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror device; time-domain systems; wavelength 1.06 mum; ytterbium doped fiber; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor lasers; Spectroscopy; Time domain analysis; Ultrafast optics; Ytterbium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared Millimeter Waves and 14th International Conference on Teraherz Electronics, 2006. IRMMW-THz 2006. Joint 31st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0400-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2006.368455

Filename

4222189