High-fidelity, 160 fs, 5 J pulses from an integrated Yb-fiber laser system with a fiber stretcher matching a simple grating compressor. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Although femtosecond microjoule Yb-fiber systems are attractive because of a straightforward power scalability, they inherently suffer from a lowered pulse fidelity as a result of complex dispersion and nonlinearity management. Here, we present an integrated Yb-fiber system delivering high-fidelity microjoule pulses compressible down to 160 fs. The system uses a dispersion compensating fiber stretcher that is specially designed to match the dispersion of a 1480 lines/mm grating compressor. Performance analysis suggests the further possibility of scaling the pulse energy to tens of microjoules without pulse quality deterioration using this dispersion management scheme.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Fernndez, A., Jespersen, K., Zhu, L., Grner-Nielsen, L., Baltuka, A., Galvanauskas, A., & Verhoef, A. J.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • Fernández, A||Jespersen, K||Zhu, L||Grüner-Nielsen, L||Baltuška, A||Galvanauskas, A||Verhoef, AJ

publication date

  • March 2012