Long-term stable passive synchronization of 50 μJ femtosecond Yb-doped fiber chirped-pulse amplifier with a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26027-26036

  Yoshitomi, Dai ^a,b   Zhou, Xiangyu ^a,b   Kobayashi, Yohei ^c   Takada, Hideyuki ^a,b   Torizuka, Kenji ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER OPTICS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; SAPPHIRE; SEED; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING JITTER; YTTERBIUM;

FEMTOSECONDS; FIBER OSCILLATORS; MODE-LOCKED; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PUMP-SEED SYNCHRONIZATION; REPETITION RATE; ROBUST SYNCHRONIZATION; SECOND HARMONICS; SEED FIBER; STABLE OPERATION; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TI:SAPPHIRE; TWO OSCILLATORS; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; TITANIUM; YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE LASER;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TITANIUM; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 78650054431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026027     Document Type: Article

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