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Item Open Access All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009) Mukhopadhyay, P.K.; Özgören, K.; Budunoğlu, I. L.; İlday, F. Ö.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 $$0.2% is reported. We also conclude that all-normal dispersion fiber oscillators are low-noise sources, suitable as seed for fiber amplifiers. Detailed numerical modeling of both pulse generation in the oscillator and propagation in the amplifier provide very good agreement with the experiments and allow us to identify its limitations. © 2006 IEEE.Item Open Access Demonstration of an all-fiber ultra-low numerical aperture ytterbium-doped large mode area fiber in a master oscillator power amplifier configuration above 1 kW power level(IEEE, 2020) Midilli, Yakup; Ortaç, BülendWe demonstrate an all-fiber ultra-low numerical aperture high power fiber laser system operating in the continuous-wave regime at a central wavelength of 1080 nm. A special Ytterbium-doped fiber preform has been designed and fabricated by using modified chemical vapor deposition technique with the deposition percentages of 0.03mol% of Yb2O3, 1.8mol% of Al2O3, and 2.1mol% of P2O5. Then it has been drawn to obtain an active fiber having core/cladding diameters of 26 μm/410 μm respectively. The numerical aperture of the fiber has been first predicted as 0.034 from refractive index profile of the preform. Afterward, this number has been verified with a simple test setup by altering the bending diameter of the fiber and the excitation conditions of it. To test the high power performance, a laser system has been constructed in a master oscillator power amplifier configuration, and ~ 80 W seed signal power is amplified to 1.05 kW. The quality of the laser output beam has been measured in terms of M 2 value along both x and y coordinates as 1.11 and 1.16 respectively.