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Stretched pulse Yb3+:silica fibre laser

Stretched pulse Yb3+:silica fibre laser
Stretched pulse Yb3+:silica fibre laser
We report what we believe to be the first results on short-pulse generation in Yb3+:silica fiber. By applying the stretched pulse technique in a unidirectional, polarization-switch Yb3+ fiber laser incorporating a prism-based dispersive delay line, we obtain self-start mode locking and 100pJ pulses that can be compressed to give clean chirp-free <100fs pulses. We believe such sources to have great potential for use not only in all-solid-state high-power femtosecond pulse systems based on Yb3+:silica glass but also as seeds for conventional Nd3+:glass amplifier chains.
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316-318
Cautaerts, V.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Paschotta, R.
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Hanna, D.C.
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Cautaerts, V.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Paschotta, R.
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Hanna, D.C.
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Cautaerts, V., Richardson, D.J., Paschotta, R. and Hanna, D.C. (1997) Stretched pulse Yb3+:silica fibre laser. Optics Letters, 22 (5), 316-318. (doi:10.1364/OL.22.000316).

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We report what we believe to be the first results on short-pulse generation in Yb3+:silica fiber. By applying the stretched pulse technique in a unidirectional, polarization-switch Yb3+ fiber laser incorporating a prism-based dispersive delay line, we obtain self-start mode locking and 100pJ pulses that can be compressed to give clean chirp-free <100fs pulses. We believe such sources to have great potential for use not only in all-solid-state high-power femtosecond pulse systems based on Yb3+:silica glass but also as seeds for conventional Nd3+:glass amplifier chains.

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Published date: 1997
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Local EPrints ID: 78024
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78024
DOI: doi:10.1364/OL.22.000316
ISSN: 0146-9592
PURE UUID: 5eaee6fa-b551-4071-81f0-2950de58f79b
ORCID for D.J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:35

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Author: V. Cautaerts
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD
Author: R. Paschotta
Author: D.C. Hanna

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