Title :
High repetition rate frequency doubled source using adiabatic Raman compression
Author :
Reeves-Hall, P.C. ; Lewis, S.A.E. ; Popov, S.V. ; Chernikov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Several schemes for adiabatic pulse compression have been studied to date. Of these, dispersion decreasing fibre has attracted considerable interest. With the availability of the new family of compact and efficient cascaded-Raman fibre lasers pulse compression in fibre Raman amplifiers offers far more flexibility in terms of wavelength and compression factor (which is determined by the pump power) than the methods used before. We report an adiabatic Raman amplifier based pulse source and have used it in combination with a periodically poled KTiOPO/sub 4/ (PPKTP) crystal to generate a high repetition rate pulse train at a wavelength of 769 nm.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; dielectric polarisation; fibre lasers; laser transitions; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical pulse compression; potassium compounds; 769 nm; KTiOPO/sub 4/; adiabatic Raman amplifier based pulse source; adiabatic Raman compression; adiabatic pulse compression; compression factor; dispersion decreasing fibre; efficient cascaded-Raman fibre lasers; fibre Raman amplifiers; high repetition rate frequency doubled source; high repetition rate pulse train generation; periodically poled; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser excitation; Optical pulse compression; Power amplifiers; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-634-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2000.906986
