Shah Lawrence, Liu Zhenlin, Hartl Ingmar, Imeshev Gennady, Cho Gyu, Fermann Martin
Opt Express. 2005 Jun 13;13(12):4717-22. doi: 10.1364/opex.13.004717.
The generation of cubicon pulses from an Yb fiber chirped pulse amplification system at pulse energies up to 200 microJ is demonstrated. After pulse compression 650 fs pulses with a pulse energy of 100 microJ are obtained, where pulse compression relies on the compensation of third-order dispersion mismatch between the stretcher and compressor via self-phase modulation of the cubicon pulses in the fiber amplifier. Values of self-phase modulation well in excess of pi can be tolerated for cubicon pulses, allowing for the nonlinear compensation of very large levels of dispersion mismatch between pulse stretcher and compressor.
