Direct Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses in Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

We review three experiments of direct femtosecond pulse amplification in ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers under increasingly nonlinear propagation conditions, starting from the parabolic regime. The temporal quality of generated compressed pulses is analyzed using frequency-resolved optical gating m...

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Published inFiber and integrated optics Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 467 - 483
Main Authors Zaouter, Y., Papadopoulos, D. N., Hanna, M., Druon, F., Mottay, E., Georges, P., Cormier, E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.2008
Taylor & Francis
Subjects
Engineering Sciences
fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
lasers
lasers fiber
Optics
Photonic
Physics
pulse compression
ultrafast lasers
ytterbium
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Summary:We review three experiments of direct femtosecond pulse amplification in ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers under increasingly nonlinear propagation conditions, starting from the parabolic regime. The temporal quality of generated compressed pulses is analyzed using frequency-resolved optical gating measurements. Linear or nonlinear compensation of third-order spectral phase allows the generation of clean sub-70 fs pulses with energies in the range of 100 nJ-1 μJ, at repetition rates above 10 MHz.
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ISSN:0146-8030
1096-4681
DOI:10.1080/01468030802269696