Compression of picosecond pulses with a chirped volume Bragg grating

Author

Taketomi, Atsushi ; Tei, K. ; Yamaguchi, Satarou ; Enokidani, Jun ; Sumida, Shin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Tokai Univ., Hiratsuka, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

13-16 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate the pulse compression of the picosecond laser system with an all fiber master oscillator power amplifier configuration containing a chirped volume Bragg grating (CVBG) at 1064 nm. We use a passive mode-locked Yb doped fiber laser with a 10 ps pulse width at a 45 MHz repetition rate for the master oscillator. Optical pulses from the oscillator are amplified by a single stage fiber amplifier. Then the spectra of amplified pulses are chirped, and the spectral widths spread due to self phase modulation (SPM) in the fiber amplifier. The chirped pulses are compressed by CVBG. In this system, we achieve the pulse width of 2.89 ps, and average output power of 1.3 W.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; laser transitions; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; oscillators; self-phase modulation; ytterbium; all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier; chirped volume Bragg grating; frequency 45 MHz; laser transitions; passive mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser; picosecond laser system; picosecond optical pulse compression; self-phase modulation; spectral widths; wavelength 1064 nm; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Oscillators; Power amplifiers; CVBG; fiber laser; picosecond;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2012

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2513-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PGC.2012.6457950

Filename

6457950