• DocumentCode
    520865
  • Title

    Pulse compression of a high power modelocked thin disk oscillator using a rod-type fiber amplifier

  • Author

    Saraceno, C.J. ; Heckl, O.H. ; Baer, C.R.E. ; Krankel, C. ; Sudmeyer, T. ; Keller, U.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Inst. of Quantum Electron., Zurich, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present a simple nonlinear compression setup based on a 70-µm diameter rod-type fiber amplifier seeded by a 12-W, 1.1-ps Yb:YAG modelocked thin-disk laser. We generate 55 W of compressed sub-100-fs pulses at 11.6 MHz.
  • Keywords
    Fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Oscillators; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500467