Self-compression and Raman soliton generation in a photonic crystal fiber of 100-fs pulses produced by a diode-pumped Yb-doped oscillator

Frédéric Druon (1) , Nicolas Sanner (1) , Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin (1) , Patrick Georges (1) , Kim M. Hansen (2) , Anders Petersson (2)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
2 Crystal Fibre A/S

We present the use of a photonic crystal fiber to straightforwardly compress ultrashort pulses from a diode-pumped ytterbium laser emitting around 1 μm. 75-fs pulse generation and a large 1-1.3-μm tunability for sub-100-fs pulses is reported.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Frédéric Druon, Nicolas Sanner, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin, Patrick Georges, Kim M. Hansen, et al.. Self-compression and Raman soliton generation in a photonic crystal fiber of 100-fs pulses produced by a diode-pumped Yb-doped oscillator. Applied optics, 2003, 42 (33), pp.6768-6770. ⟨10.1364/AO.42.006768⟩. ⟨hal-00761298⟩