Generation of few cycle pulses from a bandwidth-optimized high energy Yb-doped fiber laser source
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lavenu, Loic; Natile, Michele; Guichard, Florent; Zaouter, Yoann; Hanna, Marc; Mottay, Eric; Georges, Patrick
- Source
- 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC, 2017 Conference on). :1-1 Jun, 2017
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical fiber dispersion
Fiber lasers
Optimized production technology
Power lasers
Xenon
- Language
The vast majority of HHG sources are nowadays driven using Ti:Sapphire lasers that typically generate 30 fs pulses with few mJ energy at 1 kHz repetition rate and 800 nm wavelength, corresponding to average powers limited to around 10 W. Nonlinear compression of these sources leads to the few-cycle regime with pulse durations below 5 fs [1]. Nowadays another approach is to use femtosecond rare earth-doped fiber amplifiers that are capable of generating kW average powers [2]. In this case, gain narrowing limits the pulse duration of high energy fiber CPA to above 250 fs, and accessing the few-cycle regime requires two stages of nonlinear compression [3].