Divided-pulse Amplification of Ultrashort Pulses
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhou, Shian; Ouzounov, Dimitre G.; Wise, Frank W.
- Source
- 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2007
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Pulse amplifiers
Optical pulses
Crystals
Optical distortion
Fiber nonlinear optics
Stimulated emission
Autocorrelation
Optical fiber amplifiers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Nonlinear distortion
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
We demonstrate an approach to avoid nonlinear effects in amplification. The initial pulse is divided into a sequence of lower-energy identical pulses. The low-intensity pulses are amplified and recombined to create a final pulse.