title: Generation of ten-cycle pulses from an ytterbium fiber laser with cubic phase compensation.
abstract: We demonstrate the use of a prism-grating sequence to reduce third-order dispersion inside a mode-locked Yb fiber laser. This laser generates pulses as short as 33 fs with extremely clean temporal and spectral profiles. Nanojoule pulse energies are possible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. jb276@cornell.edu
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Buckley
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Wise