All-fiber source of high-power picosecond pulses at 1.5μm using short heavily-doped phosphate-fiber amplifier

Author

Polynkin, Alexander ; Polynkin, Pavel ; Panasenko, Dmitriy ; Mansuripur, Masud ; Moloney, Jerome ; Peyghambarian, N.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Opt. Sci., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report using short, heavily-doped active phosphate fiber for generation of picosecond pulses at 1.5 mum, with the peak power of 19 kW which results in a record-high aerial power density of 24 GW/cm² in the fiber core.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; ytterbium; JkPO₄:Er,Yb; aerial power density; fiber core; heavily-doped active phosphate fiber amplifier; high-power picosecond pulse generation; photonic-crystal fiber; power 19 kW; supercontinuum generation; wavelength 1.5 mum; Autocorrelation; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber nonlinear optics; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628024

Filename

4628024