Title

eXtreme chirped pulse amplification - Beyond the fundamental energy storage limit of semiconductor optical amplifiers

Authors

Authors

K. Kim; S. Lee;P. J. Delfyett

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

Keywords

chirped fiber Bragg grating; mode-locked lasers; optical pulse; amplifier; optical pulse compression; semiconductor lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; OSCILLATOR POWER-AMPLIFIER; BOW-TIE LASERS; GENERATION; FIBER; DISPERSION; DYNAMICS; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel method, called "eXtreme chirped pulse amplification (X-CPA)," to overcome the fundamental energy storage limit of a semiconductor optical amplifier. The method is studied numerically and experimentally. Based on the X-CPA concept, 1.4-kW record peak power is generated from an all-semiconductor X-CPA system. Prior to an extreme pulse compression stage, greater than microjoules output energies of 20 ns extremely stretched pulses are extracted from a flared semiconductor optical amplifier.

Journal Title

Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volume

12

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

245

Last Page

254

WOS Identifier

WOS:000237850100011

ISSN

1077-260X

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