FREQUENCY-DOUBLING OF FEMTOSECOND ERBIUM-FIBER SOLITON LASERS IN PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM-NIOBATE

Authors
ARBORE MA FEJER MM FERMANN ME HARIHARAN A GALVANAUSKAS A HARTER D
Citation
Ma. Arbore et al., FREQUENCY-DOUBLING OF FEMTOSECOND ERBIUM-FIBER SOLITON LASERS IN PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM-NIOBATE, Optics letters, 22(1), 1997, pp. 13-15
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
22
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
13 - 15
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1997)22:1<13:FOFESL>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We report efficient frequency doubling of passively mode-locked femtos econd erbium-fiber lasers. Quasi phase-matched second-harmonic generat ion in:periodically poled lithium niobate is used to generate 8.1 mW o f 190-fs (FWHM), 90-pJ pulses at 777 nm with a conversion efficiency g reater than can be obtained with existing birefringently phase-matched nonlinear materials. A dispersion-compensation-free soliton oscillato r generating transform-limited 230-fs (FWHM) pulses at 1554 nm is used as a pump laser. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America