Title :
High repetition rate, tunable femtosecond Yb-fiber laser
Author :
Wilken, T. ; Vilar-Welter, P. ; Hänsch, T.W. ; Udem, Th ; Steinmetz, T. ; Holzwarth, R.
Author_Institution :
Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany
Abstract :
Using only a short piece of gain fiber, a 570 MHz Yb-fiber oscillator was set up and mode-locked via NPE, assisted by spectral filtering. Tuning the filter enables changing both center wavelength or optical bandwidth.
Keywords :
Fiber lasers; Filtering; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical tuning; Oscillators; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2