Thorlabs Gmbh

Kapteyn-murnane Laboratories, Inc.

Scott R Domingue

Matthew S Kirchner

Sterling J Backus

David G Winters

Laura Wooldridge

Laura Woolridge

A method of pulse shaping using spectral filtering, positive chirp, and self-phase modulation to control the accumulated higher-order phase terms of the spectral phase. This pulse shaping method has particular advantage in fiber chirped pulse amplification (FCPA) systems, where there are two effects: (1) an offsetting of the fourth order phase via nonlinear phase accumulation, allowing for a higher Strehl ratio (i.e., a cleaner pulse), higher peak power pulse and (2) enabling power scaling to higher pulse energies without the increased nonlinear phase accumulation leading to pulse breakup. This technique can be used both in a passive system with no amplification to clean up an existing pulse, and in an amplifier system to enable higher performance operation (shorter pulses, cleaner pulses, higher energy pulses).

Higher-order dispersion compensating pulse shaper via amplitude spectral filtering and nonlinear phase accumulation

An integrated, vertically stacked device includes a laser in an enclosure, a wavelength converter in an enclosure, a mechanical interface for attaching the enclosures and maintaining the laser and wavelength converter in the same plane, and apparatus for directing light from the laser to the wavelength converter within the footprint of the integrated device.

Integrated wavelength conversion and laser source

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Scott R Domingue