Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs

C. Robin Head; Ho Yin Chan; James S. Feehan; David P. Shepherd; Shaif Ul Alam; Anne C. Tropper; Jonathan H V Price; Keith G. Wilcox

doi:10.1117/12.2004240

Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs

C. Robin Head, Ho Yin Chan, James S. Feehan, David P. Shepherd, Shaif Ul Alam, Anne C. Tropper, Jonathan H V Price, Keith G. Wilcox

Physics

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Abstract

We present a mode-locked VECSEL emitting 400-fs pulses at a 3 GHz repetition rate at 1040 nm, amplified by a cascaded ytterbium doped fiber amplifier system to an average power of 40 W. The 3-ps duration amplified pulses are recompressed to their original 400-fs duration using a high-throughput transmission grating compressor. The recompressed pulses are used to generate supercontinuum with two different photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); an all-normal dispersion PCF and a PCF with a zero-dispersion wavelength at 1040 nm, creating spectra with 20 dB bandwidths of 200 nm with 3.9 W average power and 280 nm with 2.5 W average power respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004240
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2013
Event	Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: 3 Feb 2013 → 5 Feb 2013

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8606
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

Conference

Conference	Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III
Country	United States
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	3/02/13 → 5/02/13

Keywords

Fiber amplifiers
GHz repetition rate
supercontinuum generation
vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL)
ytterbium

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Head, C. R., Chan, H. Y., Feehan, J. S., Shepherd, D. P., Alam, S. U., Tropper, A. C., Price, J. H. V., & Wilcox, K. G. (2013). Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs. In Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III [860608] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8606). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004240

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Head, CR, Chan, HY, Feehan, JS, Shepherd, DP, Alam, SU, Tropper, AC, Price, JHV & Wilcox, KG 2013, Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs. in Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III., 860608, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8606, Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III, San Francisco, CA, United States, 3/02/13. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004240

Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs. / Head, C. Robin; Chan, Ho Yin; Feehan, James S.; Shepherd, David P.; Alam, Shaif Ul; Tropper, Anne C.; Price, Jonathan H V; Wilcox, Keith G.

Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III. 2013. 860608 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8606).

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