Title :
Tailoring of chirp in colliding pulse mode-locked diode laser generating 267 fs pulses after compression
Author :
Ulm, Thorsten ; Harth, Florian ; L´Huillier, Johannes A.
Author_Institution :
Photonik-Zentrum Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Abstract :
Collision point and relative intensities of pulses in a passively mode-locked laser were optimized to generate a strong and almost linear chirp. We achieved 267fs pulses with 661W peak power using only quadratic phase compression.
Keywords :
Chirp; Diode lasers; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
