B. N. Chichkov
C. Hapke
K. Hausmann
T. Theeg
D. Wandt
U. Morgner
J. Neumann
D. Kracht

0.5 µJ pulses from a giant-chirp ytterbium fiber oscillator

Optics Express
4
19
3647-3650
2011
Type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz (reviewed)
Abstract
We present a mode-locked all-normal dispersion ytterbium fiber oscillator with output pulse energies beyond 0.5 µJ. The oscillator is mode-locked using nonlinear polarization rotation, and stable single-pulse operation is achieved by spectral filtering inside the resonator. The oscillator generates strongly chirped output pulses at a repetition rate of 4.3 MHz which can be compressed down to 760 fs.