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High-power, high repetition rate picosecond and femtosecond sources based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of VECSELs

High-power, high repetition rate picosecond and femtosecond sources based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of VECSELs
High-power, high repetition rate picosecond and femtosecond sources based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of VECSELs
Picosecond pulses at gigahertz repetition rates from two different passively mode-locked VECSELs are amplified to high powers in cascaded ytterbium doped fiber amplifiers. Small differences in pulse durations between the two VECSELs led to amplification in different nonlinear regimes. The shorter 0.5 ps pulses could be amplified to 53 W of average power in the parabolic pulse regime. This was confirmed by excellent pulse compression down to 110 fs. The VECSEL producing longer 4.6 ps pulses was amplified in an SPM dominated regime up to 200 W of average power but with poor recompressed pulse quality.
fiber optics amplifiers, oscillators, nonlinear optics, fibers
1094-4087
9611-9616
Dupriez, Pascal
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Finot, Christophe
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Malinowski, Andy
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Nilsson, Johan
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Richardson, David J.
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Foreman, Hannah D.
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Foreman, Hannah D.
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Dupriez, Pascal, Finot, Christophe, Malinowski, Andy, Sahu, Jayanta K., Nilsson, Johan, Richardson, David J., Wilcox, Keith G., Foreman, Hannah D. and Tropper, Anne C. (2006) High-power, high repetition rate picosecond and femtosecond sources based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of VECSELs. Optics Express, 14 (21), 9611-9616. (doi:10.1364/OE.14.009611).

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Abstract

Picosecond pulses at gigahertz repetition rates from two different passively mode-locked VECSELs are amplified to high powers in cascaded ytterbium doped fiber amplifiers. Small differences in pulse durations between the two VECSELs led to amplification in different nonlinear regimes. The shorter 0.5 ps pulses could be amplified to 53 W of average power in the parabolic pulse regime. This was confirmed by excellent pulse compression down to 110 fs. The VECSEL producing longer 4.6 ps pulses was amplified in an SPM dominated regime up to 200 W of average power but with poor recompressed pulse quality.

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Published date: 16 October 2006
Keywords: fiber optics amplifiers, oscillators, nonlinear optics, fibers

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Local EPrints ID: 57179
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/57179
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: e364361e-6787-4112-a58b-08cf087e2362
ORCID for Jayanta K. Sahu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3560-6152
ORCID for Johan Nilsson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-7959
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 14 Aug 2008
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:20

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Author: Pascal Dupriez
Author: Christophe Finot
Author: Andy Malinowski
Author: Jayanta K. Sahu ORCID iD
Author: Johan Nilsson ORCID iD
Author: Keith G. Wilcox
Author: Hannah D. Foreman
Author: Anne C. Tropper

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