Title :
High-power Yb: And Tm:fiber amplifiers seeded by a femtosecond passively phase-stable Er:System
Author :
Wunram, Marcel ; Kumkar, Soren ; Storz, Patrick ; Fehrenbacher, David ; Brida, Daniele ; Leitenstorfer, Alfred
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Abstract :
Synchronous high-power Yb: and Tm:amplifiers both coherently seeded by the same broadband passively phase stable Er:fiber system are demonstrated. Microjoule-level pulse energy and sub-200-fs operation at a repetition rate of 10 MHz are obtained.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser stability; light coherence; optical fibre amplifiers; synchronisation; thulium; ytterbium; broadband passively phase stable erbium:fiber system; femtosecond passively phase-stable erbium:fiber system; high-power thulium:fiber amplifiers; high-power ytterbium:fiber amplifiers; light coherence; microjoule-level pulse energy; synchronisation; time 200 fs; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optimized production technology; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
