Supercontinuum generation with GHz repetition rate femtosecond-pulse fiber-amplified VECSELs

Christopher 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:10.1109/LPT.2013.2241420

Supercontinuum generation with GHz repetition rate femtosecond-pulse fiber-amplified VECSELs

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

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We report on supercontinuum generation using a mode-locked VECSEL emitting 400-fs pulses at a 3-GHz repetition rate, amplified with a cascaded ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier system up to 40 W of average power. The pulses are then recompressed to their original duration via a high throughput transmission grating compressor, and used to generate supercontinuum in two samples of photonic crystal fiber (PCF): an all-normal dispersion PCF, and a PCF with a zero dispersion wavelength of 1040 nm, creating 20 dB spectral bandwidths of 200 nm and 280 nm, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	6415992
Pages (from-to)	464-467
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	25
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2013.2241420
Publication status	Published - 18 Feb 2013

Keywords

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

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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