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    Doping management for high-power fiber lasers: 100 W, few-picosecond pulse generation from an all-fiber-integrated amplifier
    (Optical Society of America, 2012-07-16) Elahi, P.; Yilmaz, S.; Akçaalan, Ö.; Kalaycioğlu, H.; Öktem, B.; Şenel, Ç.; Ilday, F. Ö.; Eken, K.
    Thermal effects, which limit the average power, can be minimized by using low-doped, longer gain fibers, whereas the presence of nonlinear effects requires use of high-doped, shorter fibers to maximize the peak power. We propose the use of varying doping levels along the gain fiber to circumvent these opposing requirements. By analogy to dispersion management and nonlinearity management, we refer to this scheme as doping management. As a practical first implementation, we report on the development of a fiber laser-amplifier system, the last stage of which has a hybrid gain fiber composed of high-doped and low-doped Yb fibers. The amplifier generates 100 W at 100 MHz with pulse energy of 1 μJ. The seed source is a passively mode-locked fiber oscillator operating in the all-normaldispersion regime. The amplifier comprises three stages, which are all-fiber-integrated, delivering 13 ps pulses at full power. By optionally placing a grating compressor after the first stage amplifier, chirp of the seed pulses can be controlled, which allows an extra degree of freedom in the interplay between dispersion and self-phase modulation. This way, the laser delivers 4.5 ps pulses with ∼200 kW peak power directly from fiber, without using external pulse compression.
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    Nonlinearity management of fiber oscillator with multiple gain segments
    (IEEE, 2015) Teamir, Tesfay G.; İlday, Fatih Ömer
    Oscillator with two gain segments is used to manage nonlinearity level and distribution. Results suggest that pulse evolution subject to an effective negative nonlinearity arising from complex interaction of gain filtering, dispersion, SFM and chirp.
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    Nonlinearity management: from fiber oscillators to amplifiers
    (IEEE, 2016) İlday, Fatih Ömer; Şenel, Ç.; Hamid, R.; Teamir, Tesfay G.; Pavlov, Ihor; Teğin, Uğur; Ergeçen, E.; Elahi, Parviz; Iegorov, R.
    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 are meticulously exploited towards achieving superior performance.
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    Pulse fidelity control in a 20-μJ sub-200-fs monolithic Yb-fiber amplifier
    (Pleiades Publishing, 2011-06-04) Fernández, A.; Zhu, L.; Verhoef, A. J.; Sidorov-Biryukov, D.; Pugzlys, A.; Galvanauskas, A.; Ilday, F. Ö.; Baltuška, A.
    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 amplification of a carrier-envelope phase stable white-light supercontinuum.