High fidelity femtosecond pulses from an ultrafast fiber laser system via adaptive amplitude and phase pre-shaping
High fidelity femtosecond pulses from an ultrafast fiber laser system via adaptive amplitude and phase pre-shaping
The generation of high-fidelity femtosecond pulses is experimentally demonstrated in a fiber based chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) system through an adaptive amplitude and phase pre-shaping technique. A pulse shaper, based on a dual-layer liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM), was implemented in the fiber CPA system for amplitude and phase shaping prior to amplification. The LC-SLM was controlled using a differential evolution algorithm, to maximize a two-photon absorption detector signal from the compressed fiber CPA output pulses. It is shown that this approach compensates for both accumulated phase from material dispersion and nonlinear phase modulation. A train of pulses was produced with an average power of 12.6W at a 50MHz repetition rate from our fiber CPA system, which were compressible to high fidelity pulses with a duration of 170 fs.
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10 September 2008
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Hanna, David C.
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Richardson, David J.
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Prawiharjo, Jerry, Daga, Nikita K., Geng, Rui, Price, Jonathan H.V., Hanna, David C., Richardson, David J. and Shepherd, David P.
(2008)
High fidelity femtosecond pulses from an ultrafast fiber laser system via adaptive amplitude and phase pre-shaping.
Optics Express, 16 (19), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.16.015074).
Abstract
The generation of high-fidelity femtosecond pulses is experimentally demonstrated in a fiber based chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) system through an adaptive amplitude and phase pre-shaping technique. A pulse shaper, based on a dual-layer liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM), was implemented in the fiber CPA system for amplitude and phase shaping prior to amplification. The LC-SLM was controlled using a differential evolution algorithm, to maximize a two-photon absorption detector signal from the compressed fiber CPA output pulses. It is shown that this approach compensates for both accumulated phase from material dispersion and nonlinear phase modulation. A train of pulses was produced with an average power of 12.6W at a 50MHz repetition rate from our fiber CPA system, which were compressible to high fidelity pulses with a duration of 170 fs.
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Published date: 10 September 2008
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/63352
ISSN: 1094-4087
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Jerry Prawiharjo
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Nikita K. Daga
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Rui Geng
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Jonathan H.V. Price
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David C. Hanna
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David P. Shepherd
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