A practical, low-noise, stretched pulse Yb/sup 3+/ doped fiber laser

Author

Price, Jonathan H. V. ; Lefort, Laurent ; Richardson, D.J. ; Spuhler, G.J. ; Paschotta, R. ; Keller, Ulrich ; Barty, C. ; Fry, Alan ; Weston, J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

220

Abstract

Summary form only given. Yb/sup 3+/ doped silica fibers represent an attractive medium for the generation and amplification of ultrashort pulses. We demonstrated the first short pulse Yb/sup 3+/ silica fiber oscillator in 1996. Although good self-starting performance was obtained and <100fs pulses were generated, the cavity was of a complex design, incorporating an optical circulator arrangement and an intracavity prism based dispersion compensator. Moreover, it was pumped with a Ti:sapphire laser. We report the development of a far more practical and stable diode-pumped system, that we consider will prove highly attractive for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; optical circulators; optical prisms; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; ytterbium; 100 fs; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; Yb/sup 3+/ doped fiber laser; Yb/sup 3+/ doped silica fibers; cavity; complex design; fiber laser; industrial applications; intracavity prism based dispersion compensator; optical circulator; practical laser system; practical low-noise stretched pulse fiber laser; scientific applications; self-starting performance; stable diode-pumped system; ultrashort pulses; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947728

Filename

947728