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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 22, Pages 17637-17646Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017637
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [13 N 9203]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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We derive an expression describing pre-compensation of pulse-distortion due to saturation effects in short pulse laser-amplifiers. The analytical solution determines the optimum input pulse-shape required to obtain any arbitrary target pulse-shape at the output of the saturated laser-amplifier. The relation is experimentally verified using an all-fiber amplifier chain that is seeded by a directly modulated laser-diode. The method will prove useful in applications of high power, high energy laser-amplifier systems that need particular pulse-shapes to be efficient, e. g. micromachining and scientific laser-matter-interactions. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
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