Title :
Large-Mode-Area Erbium-Ytterbium-doped Photonic-Crystal Fiber Amplifier yielding 54-kW Femtosecond Pulses without Chirped-Pulse Amplification
Author :
Shirakawa, Akira ; Musha, Mitsuru ; Ueda, Ken-ichi ; Folkenberg, Jacob Riis ; Broeng, Jes
Author_Institution :
Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Japan; akira@ils.uec.ac.jp
Abstract :
A high-energy femtosecond fiber amplifier using a large-mode-area single-mode erbium-ytterbium-codoped photonic-crystal fiber is presented. 700-fs pulses at 1557nm were amplified and compressed to near-transform-limited 100-fs, 7.4-nJ pulses with > 50-kW peak powers without chirped-pulse amplification.
Keywords :
Chirp; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569456