DocumentCode
448185
Title
Environmentally-stable femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with birefringent photonic bandgap fiber
Author
Lim, H. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Volume
2
fYear
2005
fDate
22-27 May 2005
Firstpage
1150
Abstract
We demonstrate for the first time an environmentally-stable, passively mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser with a birefringent hollow-core fiber for polarization and dispersion control. The laser generates 1-nJ pulses, which are dechirped to 70 fs.
Keywords
birefringence; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical materials; optical pulse generation; photonic band gap; ytterbium; 1 nJ; birefringent hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber; environmentally-stable passive mode-locked fiber laser; femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser; optical dispersion control; optical fibre polarization; optical pulse generation; Birefringence; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Photonic bandgap fibers; Ultrafast optics; Ytterbium;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN
1-55752-795-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202054
Filename
1573120
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