FEMTOSECOND PULSE AMPLIFICATION IN CLADDING-PUMPED FIBERS

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作者
MINELLY, JD [1 ]
GALVANAUSKAS, A [1 ]
FERMANN, ME [1 ]
HARTER, D [1 ]
CAPLEN, JE [1 ]
CHEN, ZJ [1 ]
PAYNE, DN [1 ]
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[1] UNIV SOUTHAMPTON,OPTOELECTR RES CTR,SOUTHAMPTON SO17 1BJ,HANTS,ENGLAND
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10.1364/OL.20.001797
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Femtosecond pulse amplification in a-cladding-pumped fiber amplifier is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. Using a cladding-pumped erbium-doped fiber power amplifier and a passively mode-locked fiber seed oscillator in conjunction with an all-fiber chirped-pulse amplification system, we obtain 380-fs near-bandwidth-limited pulses with an average power of 260 mW. The pulse repetition rate is varied between 5 and 50 MHz, and pulse energies as high as 20 nJ are generated. (C) 1995 Optical Society of America
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页码:1797 / 1799
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