Browsing by Keywords "Pulse repetition rate"
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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 laser systems that can operate in burst mode
(OSA, 2016)Fiber lasers which operate in burst-mode where densely spaced pulses occur inside bursts repeated at much lower repetition rates can be valuable tool for sensing and imaging. We introduce such lasers and propose possible ... -
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 ... -
Femtosecond laser written waveguides deep inside silicon
(Optical Society of America, 2017)Photonic devices that can guide, transfer, or modulate light are highly desired in electronics and integrated silicon (Si) photonics. Here, we demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the creation of ... -
Femtosecond laser-induced TiO2 nano structures on titanium
(Optical Society of America, 2010)We report formation of polarization-dependent nanostructures (nanolines, nanocircles) by high repetition-rate femtosecond laser pulses on titanium surface through a novel mechanism, converting Ti to TiO2. Arbitrarily ... -
Femtosecond pulse generation from a Ti3+: Sapphire laser near 800 nm with voltage reconfigurable graphene saturable absorbers
(OSA - The Optical Society, 2017)We experimentally show that a voltage-controlled graphene-gold supercapacitor saturable absorber (VCG-gold-SA) can be operated as a fast saturable absorber with adjustable linear absorption at wavelengths as low as 795 nm. ... -
Fiber amplification of pulse bursts at low repetition rates via synchronous pulsed pumping
(Optical Society of AmericaIstanbul Turkey, 2011)We report, for the first time, amplification of pulse-bursts in Yb-doped fiber at repetition rates as low as 200 Hz for applications to accelerators and material processing. Synchronous pulsed pumping allows suppression ... -
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 ... -
Generation of Sub-20-fs Pulses From a Graphene Mode-Locked Laser
(OSA - The Optical Society, 2017)We demonstrate, what is to our knowledge, the shortest pulses directly generated to date from a solid-state laser, mode locked with a graphene saturable absorber (GSA). In the experiments, a low-threshold diode-pumped ... -
Graphene mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser at 850 nm
(OSA - The Optical Society, 2015)We report, for the first time to our knowledge, a mode-locked femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser initiated with a high-quality monolayer graphene saturable absorber (GSA), synthesized by chemical-vapor deposition. The tight-focusing ... -
Graphene-gold supercapacitor as a voltage controlled saturable absorber for femtosecond pulse generation
(Optical Society of America, 2016-02)We report, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, use of a graphene-gold supercapacitor as a voltage controlled fast saturable absorber for femtosecond pulse generation. The unique design involving only one ... -
High average and peak power femtosecond large-pitch photonic-crystal-fiber laser
(2011)We report on the generation of high-average-power and high-peak-power ultrashort pulses from a mode-locked fiber laser operating in the all-normal-dispersion regime. As gain medium, a large-mode-area ytterbium-doped ... -
High-energy femtosecond photonic crystal fiber laser
(2010)We report the generation of high-energy high-peak power pulses in an all-normal dispersion fiber laser featuring large-mode-area photonic crystal fibers. The self-starting chirped-pulse fiber oscillator delivers 11 W of ... -
Microjoule-energy, 1 MHz repetition rate pulses from all-fiber-integrated nonlinear chirped-pulse amplifier
(Optical Society of America, 2010-03-23)We demonstrate generation of pulses with up to 4 μJ energy at 1 MHz repetition rate through nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification in an entirely fiber-integrated amplifier, seeded by a fiber oscillator. The peak power and ... -
Micromachining with square-Shaped 1 ns-Long pulses from an all-Fiber Yb-Doped laser-Amplifier system
(Optical Society of America, 2011)We demonstrate micromachining with 1ns-long pulses from an all-fiber laser. Fiber lasers generating uncompressible long pulses have been ignored as undesired operational modes, however their robust, low-repetition-rate ... -
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 ... -
Texturing of titanium (Ti6Al4V) medical implant surfaces with MHz-repetition-rate femtosecond and picosecond Yb-doped fiber lasers
(Optical Society of American (OSA), 2011)We propose and demonstrate the use of short pulsed fiber lasers in surface texturing using MHz-repetition-rate, microjoule- and sub-microjoule-energy pulses. Texturing of titanium-based (Ti6Al4V) dental implant surfaces ... -
Ultrafast micromachining of Cu and Si at ultra-high repetition rates with pulse bursts
(IEEE, 2016)We report a novel ultrafast burst mode fiber laser system, which can deliver pulses at ultra-high repetition rates in order to systematically investigate micromachining efficiency on copper and silicon samples. © 2015 IEEE.
