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

    Authors

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

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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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