High peak-power picosecond pulse generation at 1.26 μm using a quantum-dot-based external cavity mode-locked laser and tapered optical amplifier

Ying Ding; R. Aviles-Espinosa; Maria Ana Cataluna; Daniil I. Nikitichev; Myke Ruiz; Michael Tran; Yannick Robert; Alexandros Kapsalis; Hercules Simos; Charis Mesaritakis; Tianhong Xu; Paolo Bardella; Mattia Rossetti; Igor L. Krestnikov; Daniil A. Livshits; Ivo Montrosset; Dimitris Syvridis; Michel Krakowski; Pablo Loza-Alvarez; Edik U. Rafailov

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High peak-power picosecond pulse generation at 1.26 μm using a quantum-dot-based external cavity mode-locked laser and tapered optical amplifier

Ying Ding, R. Aviles-Espinosa, Maria Ana Cataluna, Daniil I. Nikitichev, Myke Ruiz, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Alexandros Kapsalis, Hercules Simos, Charis Mesaritakis, Tianhong Xu, Paolo Bardella, Mattia Rossetti, Igor L. Krestnikov, Daniil A. Livshits, Ivo Montrosset, Dimitris Syvridis, Michel Krakowski, Pablo Loza-Alvarez, Edik U. Rafailov

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In this paper, we present the generation of high peak-power picosecond optical pulses in the 1.26 μm spectral band from a repetitionrate- tunable quantum-dot external-cavity passively mode-locked laser (QDECMLL), amplified by a tapered quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier (QD-SOA). The laser emission wavelength was controlled through a chirped volume Bragg grating which was used as an external cavity output coupler. An average power of 208.2 mW, pulse energy of 321 pJ, and peak power of 30.3 W were achieved. Preliminary nonlinear imaging investigations indicate that this system is promising as a high peakpower pulsed light source for nonlinear bio-imaging applications across the 1.0 μm - 1.3 μm spectral range.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14308-14320
Number of pages	13
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	20
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.014308
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2012

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Ding, Y., Aviles-Espinosa, R., Cataluna, M. A., Nikitichev, D. I., Ruiz, M., Tran, M., Robert, Y., Kapsalis, A., Simos, H., Mesaritakis, C., Xu, T., Bardella, P., Rossetti, M., Krestnikov, I. L., Livshits, D. A., Montrosset, I., Syvridis, D., Krakowski, M., Loza-Alvarez, P., & Rafailov, E. U. (2012). High peak-power picosecond pulse generation at 1.26 μm using a quantum-dot-based external cavity mode-locked laser and tapered optical amplifier. Optics Express, 20(13), 14308-14320. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.014308

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