Chirped pulse amplification in single mode Tm:fiber using a chirped Bragg grating

    Authors

    R. A. Sims; P. Kadwani; H. Ebendorff-Heideprem; L. Shah; T. M. Monro;M. Richardson

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Phys. B-Lasers Opt.

    Keywords

    THULIUM FIBER LASER; DOPED FIBER; TELLURITE GLASS; FEMTOSECOND; SYSTEM; ENERGY; GENERATION; NJ; Optics; Physics, Applied

    Abstract

    We report femtosecond pulse generation and chirped pulse amplification in Tm:fiber. A mode-locked oscillator operating in the soliton regime produced 800 fs pulses with 5 nm spectral bandwidth, at 40 pJ pulse energy. This oscillator seeded a pre-amplifier that utilizes a Raman soliton self-frequency shift to produce wavelength tunable pulses with 3 nJ energy, reduced pulse duration of 150 fs, and increased bandwidth of 30 nm. For further amplification, the pulses were stretched up to 160 ps using a chirped Bragg grating (CBG). Stretched pulses were amplified to 85 nJ after compression in single-mode Tm:fiber and recompressed with the CBG as short as 400 fs. Compressed pulses were coupled into a highly nonlinear tellurite fiber to investigate the potential of this ultrashort pulse 2-mu m fiber source as a pump for mid-IR supercontinuum generation.

    Journal Title

    Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics

    Volume

    111

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    299

    Last Page

    304

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000319138500020

    ISSN

    0946-2171

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