Abstract
Fiber lasers are compact and stable sources of femtosecond pulses, but to date they have not been considered as serious alternatives to femtosecond solid state lasers due to their intrinsic power limitiations. Here we show that these power limitations are overcome by the use of cladding pumped fibers in conjunction with an all-fiber chirped pulse amplification system[1] based on strongly chirped fiber Bragg gratings[2].
© 1995 Optical Society of America
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