Title :
All-fibre-integrated, femtosecond laser source at 1 /spl mu/m
Author :
Avdokhin, A.V. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R.
Author_Institution :
Femtosecond Opt. Group, Imperial Coll. of Sci., London, UK
Abstract :
The first totally-fibre-integrated, figure-of-eight fs source at 1/spl mu/m is demonstrated. 850 fs pulses produced at the round-trip repetition-rate of the laser incorporating holey fibre and short length Yb-DFA. Alternative approaches to fs, Yb, all-fiber sources presented.
Keywords :
micro-optics; nonlinear optics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; ytterbium; 1 micron; 850 fs; all-fibre-integrated femtosecond laser source; holey fibre; nonlinear optics; pulses production; round-trip repetition-rate; short length Yb-DFA; Fiber lasers; Hafnium; Holey fibers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
