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Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML): A New Laser Operating Regime and Applications for Biomedical Imaging, Profilometry, Ranging and Sensing

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MA1
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• Huber, Robert
• Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML) is a new stationary operating regime of lasers, generating narrowband, rapidly wavelength swept output waveforms. The FDML mechanism and...

Low Noise Frequency Comb Based on an All-Fiber Polarization-Maintaining Figure-8 Laser

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MA2
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• Baumann, Esther; Giorgetta, Fabrizio R; Nicholson, Jeffrey W; Swann, William C; Coddington, Ian; Newbury, Nathan R
• We present a frequency comb based on an all-fiber polarization-maintaining figure-8 laser. It is locked to an optical reference through an intracavity high-bandwidth electro-optical...

Testing the Broadband Phase Coherence of a Mode Locked Laser at Microhertz Relative Linewidth

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MA3
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• Martin, Michael J; Foreman, Seth M; Schibli, Thomas R; Ye, Jun
• We report new limits on the phase coherence of the mode-locking process in an octave-spanning Ti:Sapphire comb. We find the mode-locking mechanism correlates optical phase across an...

100 GHz Passively Mode-Locked Er:Yb:Glass Laser at 1.5 µm and Experimental Identification of Transverse Cavity-Mode Degeneracies

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MA4
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• Oehler, Andreas E; Südmeyer, Thomas; Keller, Ursula; Weingarten, Kurt J
• A fundamentally modelocked Er:Yb:glass laser with a record high repetition rate of 100 GHz generates 8.6 mW average power in 1.64-ps pulses in the 1.5-µm telecom window. Frequency...

Generation of sub-40 fs Pulses at 20 GHz via Repetition Rate Multiplication

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MA5
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• Kirchner, Matthew S; Fortier, Tara M; Braje, Danielle; Weiner, Andrew M; Hollberg, Leo; Diddams, Scott A
• Optical filtering of a stabilized 1 GHz optical frequency comb produces a 20 GHz comb with ~40 nm bandwidth (FWHM) at 960 nm. Pulse durations <40 fs with low residual amplitude...

20 GHz Pulse Generation with a Stabilized Optical Frequency Comb Generator

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MA6
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• Xiao, Shijun; Hollberg, Leo; Diddams, Scott
• 20 GHz pulses were generated by a Fabry-Pérot modulator based optical frequency comb generator. We demonstrate high-fidelity 20 GHz sub-picosecond pulses with low residual microwave...

A Large-Bandwidth, Cylindrical Offner Pulse Stretcher for a High-Average-Power, 15 Femtosecond Laser

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB1
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• Molander, W A; Bayramian, A J; Campbell, R; Cross, R R; Huete, G; Schenkel, N; Ebbers, C A; Caird, J; Siders, C W; Barty, C P
• We have designed a new cylindrical mirror pulse stretcher based on an Offner telescope. With a bandwidth of 200 nm this stretcher is part of a high average power 10 Hz femto-petawatt...

Pulsing Dynamics in Ytterbium Based Chirped-Pulse Oscillators

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB10
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• Siegel, Martin; Palmer, Guido; Emons, Moritz; Schultze, Marcel; Ruehl, Axel; Morgner, Uwe
• The properties of passively mode-locked chirped-pulse oscillators based on Ytterbium doped gain media are studied theoretically along with experimental data. Predictions about...

Ultrashort Pulse Generation from a Diode-Pumped Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Yb:YAG Laser

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB11
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• Uemura, Sadao; Torizuka, Kenji
• We have generated ultrashort pulses with a pulse duration as short as 75 fs from a diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG laser, where the center wavelength and spectral width are...

Passively Mode-Locked Yb:LuScO3Oscillator

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB12
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• Schmidt, Andreas; Mateos, Xavier; Petrov, Valentin; Griebner, Uwe; Peters, Rigo; Petermann, Klaus; Huber, Günter; Klehr, Andreas; Erbert, Götz
• Mode locking of the novel mixed sesquioxide crystal Yb:LuScO³employing a SESAM is demonstrated. Pulse durations as short as 111 fs were obtained using a diode-laser pump...

Efficient and Simple High-Power Femtosecond Yb:KGW Slab-Laser Pumped by a Single Broad-Area Emitter Diode

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB13
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• Hoos, Felix; Meyrath, Todd P; Li, Sai; Braun, Bernd; Giessen, Harald
• We demonstrate a simple and efficient femtosecond Yb:KGW slab laser with output powers of nearly 5 W and pulse widths as short as 161 fs. It is pumped with a single broad-area...

High Fidelity Femtosecond Pulses from an Ultrafast Fiber Laser System via Adaptive Amplitude and Phase Pre-Shaping

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB14
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• Prawiharjo, Jerry; Daga, Nikita K; Geng, Rui; Hanna, David C; Richardson, David J; Shepherd, David P
• We report the generation of a 12.6W average power, 50MHz repetition rate pulse train, compressible to high fidelity 170fs pulses, from an ultrafast ytterbium-doped fiber laser system...

µJ-Level Femtosecond and Picosecond Fiber Oscillators

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB15
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• Ortaç, Bülend; Baumgartl, Martin; Schmidt, Oliver; Limpert, Jens; Hideur, Ammar; Sagnes, Isabelle; Garnache, Arnaud; Tünnermann, Andreas
• The generation of 1.1 µJ, 310 ps and 0.74 µJ, 711 fs pulses from an all-normal self-starting mode-locked Ytterbium-doped large-mode-area microstructure fiber laser is reported.

Timing Jitter of Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB16
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• Paschotta, Rüdiger; Prochnow, Oliver; Wandt, Dieter; Morgner, Uwe; Kracht, Dietmar
• We have investigated the timing jitter of fiber lasers with strong spectral broadening and filtering and present both theoretical and experimental results. In various aspects, such...

Generation of High Energy and High Quality Ultrashort Pulses in Moderately Nonlinear FCPA

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB17
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• Zaouter, Yoann; Boullet, Johan; Mottay, Eric; Cormier, Eric
• We report on the generation of high temporal quality 100 microJoule and 270 fs pulses from a compact moderately non-linear fiber chirped pulse amplifier with mistmatched grating...

Femtosecond Pulse Generation Using Ground-State and Excited-State Transitions in Quantum-Dot SESAMs

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB18
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• Leburn, Christopher G; Metzger, Nikolaus K; Lagatsky, Alexander A; Brown, Christian T; Sibbett, Wilson; Lumb, Matthew; Clarke, Edmund; Murray, Raymond
• Stable mode locking is demonstrated in a Cr⁴⁺:forsterite laser incorporating quantum-dot SESAMs operating either through ground-state or excited-state transitions to...

870-fs Passively Mode-Locked Quantum Dot SESAM Semiconductor Disk Laser

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB19
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• Wilcox, Keith G; Butkus, Mantas; Tropper, Anne; Farrer, Ian; Ritchie, David A; Rafailov, Edik U
• We report a sub-picosecond pulse train generated by a passively mode-locked QD-SESAM Semiconductor Disk Laser. We obtained 870-fs pulses at a repetition rate of 895MHz with average...

Spectral Phase Diagnostic for PETAL Laser: SPIRITED

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB2
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• Luce, Jacques; Rouyer, Claude
• The “SPIRITED” stands for Spectral Phase Interferometer Resolved In Time Extra Dimensional. This diagnostic displays with no processing software and no calibration, the derivative...

Influence of Preliminary Electron Feeding on Breakdown of Air by Laser

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB20
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• Furutani, Hirohide; Kawana, Keita; Shimomura, Naoya; Nishioka, Makihito; Takahashi, Eiichi
• We examined the influence of preliminary feeding of electrons from the small breakdown produced by the femtosecond laser pulse into the breakdown produced by nanosecond laser pulse....

Double-Pass Single Mode ECOPO with Achromatic Phase-Adaptation

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• Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2009 paper: MB21
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• Guilbaud, Sylvain; Berrou, Antoine; Raybaut, Myriam; Godard, Antoine; Lefebvre, Michel
• We report on a new ECOPO architecture for nanosecond OPO with low oscillation threshold and narrow linewidth. We demonstrate open loop single longitudinal mode operation over several...