Title :
Generation of 356 W peak power from all-semiconductor master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system based on extreme chirped pulse amplification (X-CPA) concept
Author :
Kim, Kyungbum ; Lee, Shinwook ; Delfyett, Peter J.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
Based on the X-CPA concept, to authors´ knowledge, we demonstrate the generation of a 356 W record peak power from all-semiconductor mode-locked MOPA system implemented with chirped fiber Bragg grating as an extreme pulse stretcher and compressor.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; laser mode locking; optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 356 W; all-semiconductor amplifier; chirped fiber Bragg grating; extreme chirped pulse amplification; extreme pulse compressor; extreme pulse stretcher; master oscillator power amplifier; mode-locked MOPA system; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202253
