Title :
Double-pass single stage short length Yb-doped rod type fibre chirped pulse amplifier system
Author :
Zaouter, Yoann ; Courjaud, A. ; Hönninger, C. ; Mottay, Eric
Author_Institution :
Amplitude Syst., Pessac, France
Abstract :
In this contribution, we report the generation of high energy, high temporal quality, ultrashort pulses from a single stage double-pass short length Ytterbium-doped rod type fibre chirped pulse amplification setup. The fibre used as gain medium is a 95-cm long rod type microstructured fibre with a 80 µm core diameter and 200 µm pump cladding diameter. The fiber amplifier is seeded by 3 nJ pulses stretched to 550 ps at a pulse repetition rate of 100 kHz. We demonstrate amplification and compression up to 200 µJ energy in 240 fs with good temporal quality leading to ∼ 750 MW peak power.
Keywords :
Chirp; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Stimulated emission;
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
