Fiber delivery of short laser pulses
AssigneeTOPTICA Photonics AG
InventorsArmin ZACH, Robert HERDA
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Abstract
A method and system for delivering laser pulses achieves the delivery of high quality laser pulses at the location of an application. The method includes the steps of: generating laser pulses, amplifying the laser pulses, temporally stretching the amplified laser pulses, and propagating the amplified laser pulses through an optical delivery fiber of desired length, wherein the laser pulses are temporally compressed in the optical delivery fiber and wherein the laser pulses undergo nonlinear spectral broadening in the optical delivery fiber.
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Method for delivering laser pulses, comprising the steps of:
- generating laser pulses,
- amplifying the laser pulses,
- temporally stretching the amplified laser pulses, and
- propagating the amplified laser pulses through an optical delivery fiber of desired length, wherein the laser pulses are temporally compressed in the optical delivery fiber and wherein the laser pulses undergo nonlinear spectral broadening in the optical delivery fiber.
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System for delivering laser pulses, comprising:
- a laser source generating laser pulses;
- an optical amplifier amplifying the laser pulses;
- an optical stretcher temporally stretching the amplified laser pulses;
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- an optical delivery fiber of desired length, through which the stretched laser pulses are propagated, wherein the laser pulses are temporally compressed in the optical delivery fiber and wherein the laser pulses undergo nonlinear spectral broadening in the optical delivery fiber.
System of 10, wherein the optical amplifier and the optical stretcher are physically the same optical fiber.
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