All-Fiber Low-Noise High-Power Femtosecond Yb-Fiber Amplifier System Seeded by an All-Normal Dispersion Fiber Oscillator

We report an all-fiber, high-power, low-noise amplifier system seeded by an all-normal-dispersion-mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser oscillator. Up to 10.6 W of average power is obtained at a repetition rate of 43 MHz with diffraction-limited beam quality. Amplified pulses are dechirped to sub-160-fs...

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Published in:IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics 2009-01, Vol.15 (1), p.145-152
Main Authors: Mukhopadhyay, P.K., Ozgoren, K., Budunoglu, I.L., Ilday, O.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplification
Amplifiers
Beams (radiation)
Diffraction
Dispersions
Femtosecond
Femtosecond pulse propagation
Fiber lasers
Fibers
Gratings
High power amplifiers
Laser beams
Laser stability
Low-noise amplifiers
optical fiber amplifiers
optical fiber lasers
Oscillators
Pulse amplifiers
Pulse compression methods
Stability
ultrafast optics
Yb-doped fiber
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Summary:We report an all-fiber, high-power, low-noise amplifier system seeded by an all-normal-dispersion-mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser oscillator. Up to 10.6 W of average power is obtained at a repetition rate of 43 MHz with diffraction-limited beam quality. Amplified pulses are dechirped to sub-160-fs duration in a grating compressor. It is to our knowledge the first high-power source of femtosecond pulses with completely fiber-integrated amplification comprising commercially available components. Long-term stability is excellent. Short-term stability is characterized and an integrated laser intensity noise of
ISSN:1077-260X
1558-4542
DOI:10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010261