CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION OF ULTRASHORT PULSES WITH A MULTIMODE TM-ZBLAN FIBER UP-CONVERSION AMPLIFIER

Authors
YANG LM SOSNOWSKI T STOCK ML NORRIS TB SQUIER J MOURON G DENNIS ML DURLING IN
Citation
Lm. Yang et al., CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION OF ULTRASHORT PULSES WITH A MULTIMODE TM-ZBLAN FIBER UP-CONVERSION AMPLIFIER, Optics letters, 20(9), 1995, pp. 1044-1046
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
20
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1044 - 1046
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1995)20:9<1044:CAOUPW>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Microjoule pulse energies are achieved from a single-stage upconversio n fiber amplifier for the first time, to our knowledge, in this demons tration of chirped-pulse amplification with a multimode Tm:ZBLAN fiber . A Ti:sapphire laser system provides the seed pulse for the fiber upc onversion amplifier that produces picosecond pulse trains with energie s as great as 16 mu J at a repetition rate of 4.4 kHz.