View Konstantin Vodopyanov, 2008 CLEO Program Co-Chair, discussing fiber lasers.

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Fiber Lasers

Below are select presentations on this topic. To find additional relevant papers and sessions, visit the online conference program.

CML4 • Microwave Signal Regeneration from Mode-Locked Lasers with 1.9×10^-19 Stability
Monday, May 5, 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m., Room C3 and C4
Jungwon Kim, Franz Kaertner; MIT, USA. A 10.225-GHz microwave signal is regenerated from a 200.5-MHz repetition rate mode-locked fiber laser with 6.8 fs rms relative timing jitter in 1-MHz bandwidth integrated over 10 hours. This corresponds to the stability of 1.9×10^-19.

CTuK1 • Ultrafast Fiber Amplifier Systems: Status, Perspectives and Applications
Tuesday, May 6, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m., Ballroom A3 and A6
Andreas Tünnermann; Fraunhofer-Inst., Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik, Germany. We will discuss the status of high repetition rate high energy femtosecond fiber laser systems, review their scaling potential in terms of average power, pulse energy and peak power. First micro-machining applications demonstrate the potential.

SC270 • High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers
Tuesday, May 6, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
W. Andrew Clarkson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK. Recent advances in cladding-pumped fiber lasers and amplifiers have been dramatic, leading to unprecedented levels of performance in terms of output power, efficiency, beam quality and wavelength coverage. These achievements have attracted growing interest within the community and have fuelled thoughts that fiber-based sources may one day replace conventional “bulk” solid-state lasers in many application areas. The main attractions of cladding-pumped fiber sources are derived directly from their geometry which simultaneously allows very efficient generation of coherent light and almost complete immunity from the effects of heat generation, which are so detrimental to the performance of other types of lasers.