Polarisation maintaining 100-W Yb-fiber MOPA producing micro-J pulses tunable in duration from 1-21 ps
Polarisation maintaining 100-W Yb-fiber MOPA producing micro-J pulses tunable in duration from 1-21 ps
This paper demonstrates a single polarisation, 1.06 µm Yb-doped fiber MOPA, delivering 21 ps pulses in a diffraction limited beam at repetition rates of up to 908 MHz and average output power of 100 W. The maximum pulse energy was 1.7 µJ at a repetition rate of 56 MHz, with corresponding peak power of 85 kW. The 100 W power was limited by available diode pump power and scaling to higher power levels is discussed. We also report self-phase-modulation based pulse compression which produced pulse durations as short as 1.1 ps from an external grating compressor. Using 4.2 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 227 MHz enabled 26 W of visible laser power (50% SHG efficiency) to be demonstrated.
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Chen, Kang Kang
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July 2010
Chen, Kang Kang
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Price, Jonathan H.V.
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Hayes, John R.
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Chen, Kang Kang, Price, Jonathan H.V., Alam, Shaif-ul, Hayes, John R., Lin, Dejiao, Malinowski, Andrew and Richardson, David J.
(2010)
Polarisation maintaining 100-W Yb-fiber MOPA producing micro-J pulses tunable in duration from 1-21 ps.
Optics Express, 18 (14), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.18.014385).
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a single polarisation, 1.06 µm Yb-doped fiber MOPA, delivering 21 ps pulses in a diffraction limited beam at repetition rates of up to 908 MHz and average output power of 100 W. The maximum pulse energy was 1.7 µJ at a repetition rate of 56 MHz, with corresponding peak power of 85 kW. The 100 W power was limited by available diode pump power and scaling to higher power levels is discussed. We also report self-phase-modulation based pulse compression which produced pulse durations as short as 1.1 ps from an external grating compressor. Using 4.2 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 227 MHz enabled 26 W of visible laser power (50% SHG efficiency) to be demonstrated.
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