Abstract
Up to 400 mW of near-IR (1370–1500 nm) femtosecond pulses are generated from an optical parametric amplifier directly driven by a Yb:fiber oscillator delivering 100 fs pulses at 1036 nm. The process is seeded by a stable supercontinuum obtained from a photonic crystal fiber. We use a single pass through a 3 mm, magnesium oxide-doped, periodically poled downconversion crystal to produce a near-IR pulse train with a remarkable power stability of 1.4% (RMS) during one hour. Tuning is achieved by the temperature and the poling period of the nonlinear crystal.
© 2017 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Joachim Krauth, Andy Steinmann, Robin Hegenbarth, Matteo Conforti, and Harald Giessen
Opt. Express 21(9) 11516-11522 (2013)
Heiko Linnenbank and Stefan Linden
Opt. Express 22(15) 18072-18077 (2014)
Chengzhi Hu, Wenjie Yue, Tao Chen, Peipei Jiang, Bo Wu, and Yonghang Shen
Appl. Opt. 56(6) 1574-1578 (2017)