title: Dispersion-free pulse duration reduction of passively Q-switched microchip lasers.
abstract: We present a dispersion-free method for the pulse duration reduction of passively Q-switched microchip laser (MCL) seed sources. This technique comprises two stages: one that carries out the self-phase modulation induced spectral broadening in a waveguide structure and a subsequent spectral filtering stage in order to shorten the pulses in time domain. The setup of a proof-of-principle experiment consists of a fiber-amplified passively Q-switched MCL, a passive single-mode fiber used as nonlinear element in which the spectrum is broadened, and a reflective volume-Bragg-grating acting as bandpass filter. A reduction of the pulse duration from 118 to 32 ps with high temporal quality has been achieved with this setup.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany. reinhold.lehneis@uni‑jena.de
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lehneis
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authors.lastname: Steinmetz
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authors.lastname: Jauregui
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authors.lastname: Limpert
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authors.lastname: Tünnermann