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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 3758-3764Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003758
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [13N9722]
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Mode-locked lasers have an undisputed position in the ultrafast domain, though they are fairly expensive for miscellaneous applications. Thus, laser consumers revert to more cost-effective systems like Q-switched lasers. Here we report on the nonlinear compression of passively Q-switched laser pulses that allows accessing the time domain of sub-10-picoseconds, which has been so far the realm of mode-locked lasers. Laser pulses with an initial duration of 100ps from a passively Q-switched microchip laser are amplified in a photonic crystal fiber and spectrally broadened from 20pm to 0.68nm by self-phase modulation. These pulses are compressed in a grating compressor to a duration of 6ps with a pulse energy of 13 mu J. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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