Browsing by Keywords "Fiber amplifiers"
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1 mJ pulse bursts from a Yb-doped fiber amplifier
(Optical Society of America, 2012-07-01)We demonstrate burst-mode operation of a polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber amplifier capable of generating 60 μJ pulses within bursts of 11 pulses with extremely uniform energy distribution facilitated by a novel ... -
33 Femtosecond Yb-doped optical frequency comb for frequency metrology applications
(Bilkent University, 2013)Optical frequency combs have enabled many applications (high precision spectroscopy, table-top optical frequency metrology, optical atomic clocks, etc.), received considerable attention and a Nobel Prize. In this thesis, ... -
50-W, 1.6-GHz pulse repetition rate from a burst-mode Yb-doped fiber laser
(IEEE, 2017)We report a 50-W average power Yb-doped fiber laser amplifier system. The laser system produces bursts at a minimum rate of 200 kHz, with 1.6 GHz intraburst repetition rate. The total energy delivers in a burst is 250 μJ ... -
All-fiber high-energy yb-doped fiber amplifier
(IEEE, 2009)We report a robust, all-fiber amplifier seeded by a fiber oscillator. Seed pulses at 1 MHz repetition rate are amplified up to 3 μJ, delivering 1 μJ-energy, 170 fs-long pulses. Duration reduces to 120 fs at 1 μJ amplifier ... -
Balancing gain narrowing with self phase modulation: 100-fs, 800-nJ from an all-fiber-integrated Yb amplifier
(IEEE, 2013)There is much progress in Yb-fiber oscillator-amplifier systems, which enable generation of high-repetition-rate, microjoule energies and sub-picosecond pulse widths [1,2]. Given the extremely large total gain factors to ... -
Burst-mode thulium all-fiber laser delivering femtosecond pulses at a 1 GHz intra-burst repetition rate
(Optical Society of America, 2017)We report on the development of, to the best of our knowledge, the first ultrafast burst-mode laser system operating at a central wavelength of approximately 2 μm, where water absorption and, consequently, the absorption ... -
Burst-mode Yb fiber amplifier producing 30 μJ individual pulse energy
(Optical Society of America, 2012)We report 30-μJ individual pulse energy for 150-ns long amplified bursts of 0.4 mJ total energy from a 1-kHz Yb-fiber amplifier. Non-uniformity of pulse energy distribution inside amplified bursts is significantly reduced. ... -
Femtosecond Yb-doped fiber laser system at 1 μm of wavelength with 100-nm bandwidth and variable pulse structure for accelerator diagnostics
(2007-05)Laser-based diagnostic systems play an increasingly important role in accelerator diagnostics in, for instance, electron bunch length measurements. To date, the laser system of choice for electro-optic experiments has been ... -
Fiber amplification of pulse bursts up to 20 μj pulse energy at 1 kHz repetition rate
(Optical of Society of America, 2011-08-23)We demonstrate burst-mode operation of a polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber amplifier. Groups of pulses with a temporal spacing of 10 ns and 1 kHz overall repetition rate are amplified to an average pulse energy of ... -
Influence of pump noise and modulation on in-fiber amplification of broadband pulses
(Optical Society of America, 2011)We investigate experimentally and theoretically the coupling of pump laser modulation and noise fluctuations to the output power of a fiber amplifier for broadband pulse trains using the modulation transfer function approach. ... -
Microjoule pulse energies at 1 MHz repetition rate from an all-fiber nonlinear chirped-pulse amplifier
(Optical Society of America, 2010)We report a 1-MHz robust, all-fiber amplifier-oscillator system. Amplified pulses of 3 μJ are externally compressed to 140 fs. The highest peak power from an integrated fiber source, up to 50 kW, is obtained. © 2010 Optical ... -
Nonlinearity management: from fiber oscillators to amplifiers
(IEEE, 2016)While the standard approach to performance scaling in fiber lasers seeks to reduce nonlinear effects through chirping or mode scaling, I will review recent progress in a complementary approach, whereby the governing dynamics ... -
Pulse fidelity control in a 20-μJ sub-200-fs monolithic Yb-fiber amplifier
(Pleiades Publishing, 2011-06-04)We discuss nonlinearity management versus energy scalability and compressibility in a three-stage monolithic 100-kHz repetition rate Yb-fiber amplifier designed as a driver source for the generation and tunable parametric ... -
Time-and position-dependent modeling of high-power low-repetition-rate Er-Yb-fiber amplifier
(IEEE, 2013)There is rapid progress in the development of high-power fiber lasers due to their robust operation, low cost, high beam quality at high powers. There are various applications, such as laser sensing, LIDAR applications, ...
