High-energy femtosecond photonic crystal fiber laser
Author
Lecaplain, C.
Ortaç, B.
MacHinet G.
Boullet J.
Baumgart, M.
Schreiber, T.
Cormier, E.
Hideur, A.
Date
2010Source Title
Optics Letters
Print ISSN
1469592
Volume
35
Issue
19
Pages
3156 - 3158
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
We report the generation of high-energy high-peak power pulses in an all-normal dispersion fiber laser featuring large-mode-area photonic crystal fibers. The self-starting chirped-pulse fiber oscillator delivers 11 W of average power at 15:5 MHz repetition rate, resulting in 710 nJ of pulse energy. The output pulses are dechirped outside the cavity from 7 ps to nearly transform-limited duration of 300 fs, leading to pulse peak powers as high as 1:9 MW. Numerical simulations reveal that pulse shaping is dominated by the amplitude modulation and spectral filtering provided by a resonant semiconductor saturable absorber. © 2010 Optical Society of America.
Keywords
Average powerChirped-pulse
Femtoseconds
Fiber oscillators
High energy
High peak power
Large-mode-area photonic crystal fibers
Normal dispersion
Numerical simulation
Output pulse
Peak power
Pulse energies
Pulse-shaping
Repetition rate
Self-starting
Semiconductor saturable absorbers
Spectral filtering
Crystal whiskers
Fiber lasers
Fibers
High energy physics
Photonic crystals
Pulse repetition rate
Semiconductor lasers
Single mode fibers
Photonic crystal fibers
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