Title :
High energy fiber chirped pulse amplification system based on cubicons
Author :
Liu, Z. ; Shah, L. ; Hartl, I. ; Cho, G.C. ; Fermann, M.E.
Author_Institution :
IMRA America Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
The generation of stretched 20 pJ pulses with 200 kW peak power is demonstrated in an in-line Yb fiber chirped pulse amplification system at a repetition rate of 50 kHz. The pulses are compressible down to 400 fs using nonlinear cubical dispersion compensation.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; fibre lasers; nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; 20 muJ; 200 kW; 400 fs; 50 kHz; chirped pulse amplification; compressible pulses; cubicons; fiber amplification system; high energy pulse amplification system; inline Yb fiber; nonlinear cubical dispersion compensation; stretched pulse amplification; Chirp; Compressors; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202229
