Generation of ten-cycle pulses from an ytterbium fiber laser with cubic phase compensation.
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.
Buckley
J R
JR
Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. jb276@cornell.edu
Clark
S W
SW
Wise
F W
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