Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs
Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs
We present a mode-locked VECSEL emitting 400-fs pulses at a 3 GHz repetition rate at 1040 nm, amplified by a cascaded ytterbium doped fiber amplifier system to an average power of 40 W. The 3-ps duration amplified pulses are recompressed to their original 400-fs duration using a high-throughput transmission grating compressor. The recompressed pulses are used to generate supercontinuum with two different photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); an all-normal dispersion PCF and a PCF with a zero-dispersion wavelength at 1040 nm, creating spectra with 20 dB bandwidths of 200 nm with 3.9 W average power and 280 nm with 2.5 W average power respectively.
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13 February 2013
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Head, C.Robin, Chan, Ho-Yin, Feehan, James S., Shepherd, David P., Alam, Shaif-ul, Tropper, Anne C., Price, Jonathan H.V. and Wilcox, Keith G.
(2013)
Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs.
Hastie, Jennifer E.
(ed.)
Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III, San Francisco, United States.
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(doi:10.1117/12.2004240).
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We present a mode-locked VECSEL emitting 400-fs pulses at a 3 GHz repetition rate at 1040 nm, amplified by a cascaded ytterbium doped fiber amplifier system to an average power of 40 W. The 3-ps duration amplified pulses are recompressed to their original 400-fs duration using a high-throughput transmission grating compressor. The recompressed pulses are used to generate supercontinuum with two different photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); an all-normal dispersion PCF and a PCF with a zero-dispersion wavelength at 1040 nm, creating spectra with 20 dB bandwidths of 200 nm with 3.9 W average power and 280 nm with 2.5 W average power respectively.
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Published date: 13 February 2013
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Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III, San Francisco, United States, 2013-02-13
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C.Robin Head
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Ho-Yin Chan
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James S. Feehan
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David P. Shepherd
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Anne C. Tropper
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Jonathan H.V. Price
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Keith G. Wilcox
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