Title :
Gigahertz Parabolic Pulse Generation in a High-Power Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Amplifier Seeded by a Passively Mode-Locked VECSEL
Author :
Dupriez, P. ; Wilcox, K.G. ; Finot, C. ; Malinowski, A. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Tropper, A.C. ; Nilsson, J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1 BJ, U.K., pad@orc.soton.ac.uk
Abstract :
Fiber amplification of sub-picosecond pulses at 1.1 GHz produced by a passively mode-locked VECSEL enabled the generation of parabolic pulses with average power exceeding 50 W. Clean pulse compression down to 110 fs was demonstrated.
Keywords :
Doped fiber amplifiers; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801170
