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    All-fiber, single-mode spectral beam combining of high power Tm-doped fiber lasers
    (OSA, 2015) Yılmaz, S.; Ottenhues, C.; Wysmolek, M.; Theeg, T.; Lamrini, S.; Scholle, K.; Fuhrberg, P.; Sayınç, H.; İlday, Fatih Ömer; Neumann, J.; Overmeyer, L.; Kracht, D.
    Signal beam combining of Tm-doped fiber lasers can increase the laser output power while simultaneously maintaining the single mode beam quality. We demonstrate an all-fiber integrated dual-wavelength Tm-doped fiber laser with an output power of 36 W by using the spectral beam combining method. The constituent lasers are operating at the wavelengths 1949 and 1996 nm and an in-house-made WDM is used for combination of these two different wavelengths. All-fiber truly single mode power combining is demonstrated for the first time in this wavelength region.
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    Burst-mode thulium all-fiber laser delivering femtosecond pulses at a 1 GHz intra-burst repetition rate
    (Optical Society of America, 2017) Elahı, P.; Kalaycıoğlu, H.; Akçaalan, Ö.; Şenel, Ç.; Ilday, F. Ö.
    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 of most biological tissue is very high. The laser comprises a harmonically mode-locked 1-GHz oscillator, which, in turn, seeds a fiber amplifier chain. The amplifier produces 500 ns long bursts containing 500 pulses with 1 GHz intra-burst and 50 kHz inter-burst repetition rates, respectively, at an average power of 1 W, corresponding to 40 nJ pulse and 20 μJ burst energies, respectively. The entire system is built in an all-fiber architecture and implements dispersion management such that output pulses are delivered directly from a single-mode fiber with a duration of 340 fs without requiring any external compression. This gigahertz-repetition-rate system is intended for ablation-cooled laser material removal in the 2 μm wavelength region, which is interesting for laser surgery due to the exceptionally high tissue absorption at this wavelength.