Abstract

The demonstration of chirped puke amplification (CFA) technique with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has resulted in generation of femtosecond pulses with energies in the 1-10 μJ range.¹ Such compact fiber-based sources of high-energy ultrashort pulses are of strong interest as potential replacements of bulk solid-state lasers in a variety of nonlinear applications. This implies further demand for the increase of attainable pulse energies into the sub-100 μJ range.

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