Title :
Yb-fiber oscillator based, few-cycle ultrafast source at 850nm
Author :
Hung-Wen Chen ; Zia, Haider ; Jinkang Lim ; Guoqing Chang ; Kartner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We demonstrate an Yb-fiber oscillator based, broadband (~170 nm) laser source centered at 850 nm. The spectrum generated by fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation produces ~11-fs compressed pulses after phase compensation using 8 double-chirped mirrors.
Keywords :
Cherenkov radiation; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mirrors; optical pulse compression; ytterbium; Yb; Yb-fiber oscillator; broadband laser source; compressed pulses; double-chirped mirrors; few-cycle ultrafast source; fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation; phase compensation; wavelength 850 nm; Fiber lasers; Free electron lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses; Oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600145
