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Picosecond pulse amplification up to a peak power of 42 W by a quantum-dot tapered optical amplifier and a mode-locked laser emitting at 1.26 μm

  • Christoph Weber
  • , Lukas Drzewietzki
  • , Mattia Rossetti
  • , Tianhong Xu
  • , Paolo Bardella
  • , Hercules Simos
  • , Charis Mesaritakis
  • , Mike Ruiz
  • , Igor Krestnikov
  • , Daniil Livshits
  • , Michel Krakowski
  • , Dimitris Syvridis
  • , Ivo Montrosset
  • , Edik U. Rafailov
  • , Wolfgang Elsäßer
  • , Stefan Breuer*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • III-V Lab
  • Innolume GmbH
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Politecnico di Torino
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Abstract

We experimentally study the generation and amplification of stable picosecond-short optical pulses by a master oscillator power-amplifier configuration consisting of a monolithic quantum-dot-based gain-guided tapered laser and amplifier emitting at 1.26 μm without pulse compression, external cavity, gain-or Q-switched operation. We report a peak power of 42 W and a figure-of-merit for second-order nonlinear imaging of 38.5 W2 at a repetition rate of 16 GHz and an associated pulse width of 1.37 ps.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)395-398
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume40
Issue number3
Early online date29 Jan 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2015

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