@inproceedings{cd8069a22abd4e16a177e42fe67504c6,
title = "Supercontinuum generation with femtosecond pulse fiber amplified VECSELs",
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.",
keywords = "Fiber amplifiers, GHz repetition rate, supercontinuum generation, vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL), ytterbium",
author = "Head, {C. Robin} and Chan, {Ho Yin} and Feehan, {James S.} and Shepherd, {David P.} and Alam, {Shaif Ul} and Tropper, {Anne C.} and Price, {Jonathan H V} and Wilcox, {Keith G.}",
year = "2013",
month = apr,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1117/12.2004240",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819493750",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III",
note = "Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VECSELs) III ; Conference date: 03-02-2013 Through 05-02-2013",
}