title: 20-kW peak power all-fiber 1.57-microm source based on compression in air-core photonic bandgap fiber, its frequency doubling, and broadband generation from 430 to 1450 nm.
abstract: We demonstrate an ultrashort all-fiber-integrated chirped-pulse amplification system yielding 1-ps pulses with 20 kW of peak power. 40-ps initial pulses generated by an externally modulated laser diode are chirped by self-phase modulation in a conventional fiber, amplified, and compressed in 110 m of air-core photonic bandgap fiber. The compressed pulses are frequency doubled in a periodically poled KTP crystal with up to 48% efficiency and applied to supercontinuum generation in a holey fiber, resulting in a high-power uniform continuum that stretches from 430 to 1450 nm.
authors.affiliation: Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BW, UK.
authors.forename: C J S
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: de Matos
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Popov
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Taylor