Shaping of clean, femtosecond pulses at 1053 μm for chirped-pulse amplification
- 15 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 17 (2), 136-138
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.17.000136
Abstract
We report the generation of 200-fs optical pulses at 1.053 μm using two stages of fiber-grating compressors. The usual intensity background associated with this compression technique has been reduced to less than 10−7 of the peak intensity by using nonlinear birefringence in the second fiber. These pulses are used at the front end of our chirped-pulse amplification terawatt Nd:glass laser system.Keywords
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