Pulse compression down to 20 fs using a photonic crystal fiber seeded by a diode-pumped Yb:SYS laser at 1070 nm

Frédéric Druon (1) , Patrick Georges (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa

We studied experimentally and theoretically the pulse compression using a zero-dispersion photonic crystal fiber in order to optimize the pulse duration and pulse shape. 20.3-fs pulses centered at 1070 nm have been produced using a diode-pumped system based on Yb:SYS crystal. The limitations such as pre-pulse amplitude or solitonic fission have also been studied

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Frédéric Druon, Patrick Georges. Pulse compression down to 20 fs using a photonic crystal fiber seeded by a diode-pumped Yb:SYS laser at 1070 nm. Optics Express, 2004, 12 (15), pp.3383-3396. ⟨hal-00686985⟩