Open AccessHigh energy ultrashort pulses via hollow fiber compression of a fiber chirped pulse amplification system
Author(s) -
Steffen Hädrich,
Jan Rothhardt,
Tino Eidam,
Jens Limpert,
Andreas Tünnermann
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.003913
Subject(s) - optics , materials science , ultrashort pulse , pulse compression , chirped pulse amplification , bandwidth limited pulse , self phase modulation , femtosecond pulse shaping , fiber laser , pulse shaping , pulse (music) , optical fiber , nonlinear optics , laser , physics , detector , telecommunications , radar , computer science
A simple, robust and compact pulse compressor for a high-repetition rate high-peak power fiber chirped pulse amplification system is presented. We use noble-gas-filled hollow fibers for spectral broadening of the optical pulses via self-phase modulation. Subsequent compression with chirped mirrors shortens the pulses by more than a factor of 10. Pulses shorter than 70 fs with pulse energies of the order of 100 mu J have been obtained resulting in a peak power up to 1 GW at 30.3kHz. Additionally, nonlinear polarization rotation has been used for temporal pulse cleaning during the nonlinear compression at 30.3 kHz and 100 kHz, respectively.