12× pulse compression using optical fibers
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 42 (1), 1-2
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.93749
Abstract
We report a factor of 12 compression of the 5.4-ps, 1-kW pulses from a mode-locked dye laser. The pulses were frequency broadened and linearly chirped by the combined action of self-phase modulation and group velocity dispersion during passage through a 30-m single-mode optical fiber. The fiber output pulses were then compressed to 450-fs, 3-kW pulses by passage through a diffraction grating based dispersive delay line. These short pulses were tunable over the 300-Å range of the laser dye.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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