91-pJ, 73-fs pulses from a frequency-doubled stretched-pulse additive-pulse mode-locked fiber laser

Author

Lenz, G. ; Fleischer, S.B. ; Nelson, L.E. ; Dougherty, Daniel J. ; Ippen, Erich P

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

31

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report the demonstration of a frequency-doubled diode-pumped stretched-pulse additive-pulse mode-locked (SP-APM) fiber laser producing 91-pJ pulses with 3.2 mW of average power. Pulse energies on this order are required to seed high-repetition-rate regenerative amplifiers to avoid amplified spontaneous emission background. The 35.2-MHz repetition rate of our system results in a visible red beam, which simplifies alignment of the amplifier system.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical harmonic generation; 3.2 mW; 35.2 MHz; 73 ps; 91 pJ; diode pumping; frequency-doubled stretched-pulse additive-pulse mode-locked fiber laser; regenerative amplifier seeding; repetition rate; visible red beam; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864319