An all-photonic-crystal-fiber wavelength-tunable source of high-energy sub-100 fs pulses

We demonstrate a wavelength-tunable source of high-energy sub-100 fs light pulses where all the key components, including a master oscillator, an amplifier, and a tunable frequency shifter, are based on photonic-crystal fibers (PCFs). Soliton self-frequency shift in a specifically designed all-solid...

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Published in:	Optics communications Vol. 289; pp. 123 - 126
Main Authors:	Fang, Xiao-Hui, Hu, Ming-Lie, Liu, Bo-Wen, Chai, Lu, Wang, Ching-Yue, Wei, Hui-Feng, Tong, Wei-Jun, Luo, Jie, Sun, Chi-Kuang, Voronin, Alexander A, Zheltikov, Aleksei M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	15-02-2013
Subjects:	Amplification Amplifiers Crystal fibers Frequency shifters Oscillators Solitons Transforms Wavelengths
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Summary:	We demonstrate a wavelength-tunable source of high-energy sub-100 fs light pulses where all the key components, including a master oscillator, an amplifier, and a tunable frequency shifter, are based on photonic-crystal fibers (PCFs). Soliton self-frequency shift in a specifically designed all-solid photonic band-gap fiber with an effective mode area of 110 mu m2 is used in this system to transform a 1040 nm, 50 MHz, 100 fs amplified output of a large-mode-area ytterbium-doped PCF oscillatoraamplifier system into sub-100 fs, 6.4 nJ light pulses smoothly tunable within the range of wavelengths from 1160 to 1260 nm.
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ISSN:	0030-4018
DOI:	10.1016/j.optcom.2012.07.089