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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Aston University
All-fiber passively mode-locked femtosecond laser using a 45º-tilted fiber grating polarization element
This paper employs Aston’s fibre device – 45°-tilted-gratings - developed with funding from EPSRC, US Air Force (Dr Gerry Moore, gerry.moore@kirtland.af.mil) and Boeing (Mr Sanders Wayne, wayne.d.sanders@boeing.com). This intra-cavity grating enabled the generation of femtosecond-short-pulses with energy 10 times higher than typical soliton-mode-locked-lasers. This new high energy femtosecond-fibre-laser has been the key technology demonstrator for the European Research and Development Fund project (XBG/IN9044, 2009-2012) and presented to 40 UK SME companies. Such high power short pulse fibre lasers could be important tools for studying fundamental science and applications in telecom, sensing, metrology, microscopy and nonlinear science.
