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Item Open Access All-fiber high-energy yb-doped fiber amplifier(IEEE, 2009) Öktem, Bülent; Kalaycioǧlu, Hamit; İlday, F. ÖmerWe 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 output. These are the highest peak powers from an integrated fiber source. © 2009 IEEE.Item Open Access All-normal-dispersion fiber lasers for frequency metrology(Optical Society of America, 2011) Şenel, Çağrı; İlday, F. Ömer; Kara, O.; Birlikseven, C.; Erdoǧan, C.; Hamid, R.Development of an all-normal-dispersion Yb-doped fiber laser-based frequency comb is reported. Repetition-frequency stabilization to the cesium standard, amplitude and phase noise measurements indicate low-noise performance. ©2011 Optical Society of America.Item Open Access Development and characterization of all-normal dispersion fiber laser for frequency comb generation(Optical Society of America, 2011) Şenel, Çağrı; İlday, F. Ömer; Kara O.; Hamid, R.; Erdoğan, C.Development of an all-normal-dispersion Yb-doped fiber laser-based frequency comb is reported. Repetition-frequency stabilization to the cesium standard, amplitude and phase noise measurements indicate low-noise performance. © 2011 Optical Society of America.Item Open Access Fiber amplification of pulse bursts at low repetition rates via synchronous pulsed pumping(Optical Society of America, 2011) Kalaycıoğlu,Hamit; Yavaş, Seydi; İlday, F. Ömer; Eken, KorayWe 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 of ASE generation. © 2011 Optical Society of America.Item Open Access Generation of 1.2-nJ, 62-fs, chirp-free pulses directly from a Yb-doped fiber oscillator(IEEE, 2016) Teamir, Tesfay G.; İlday, Fatih Ömer1.2-nJ, 62-fs, linear-chirp-free pulses are generated directly from a mode-locked fiber oscillator through optimized interaction of second- and third-order dispersion with self-phase modulation.Item Open Access Properties of a microjoule-class fiber oscillator mode-locked with a SESAM(IEEE, 2011) Lecaplain, C.; Ortac, Bülend; MacHinet G.; Boullet J.; Baumgartl, M.; Schreiber, T.; Cormier, E.; Hideur, A.Energy scaling of ultrafast Yb-doped fiber oscillators has experienced rapid progress largely driven by many applications that require high average power femtosecond pulses. The fundamental challenge for ultrafast fiber lasers relies on the control of excessive nonlinearity, which limits pulse energy. The development of all-normal dispersion laser cavities based on large-mode-area photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) has enabled significant energy scaling [1-3]. In particular, up to microjoule energy levels have been achieved from rod-type fiber-based oscillators [2-3]. In such lasers, pulse shaping is dominated by the strength of the mode-locking mechanism which determines the pulse properties. In this contribution, we report the generation of high-energy sub-picosecond pulses from a highly normal dispersion fiber laser featuring an Yb-doped rod-type PCF and a large-mode-area PCF [Fig.1(a)]. Passive mode-locking is achieved using saturable absorber mirrors (SAMs). We study the influence of the SAM parameters on performances obtained in this new class of fiber oscillators. The structures exhibit 20 % modulation depths and 500 fs relaxation time with resonant and antiresonant designs. The antiresonant SAM structures ensure absorption bandwidths 45 nm while the resonant structures exhibit 20 nm bandwidths. Stable mode locking with average powers as high as 15 μW at 15 MHz repetition rate, corresponding to microjoule energy level are obtained with all the structures. However, pulse properties and pulse shaping mechanism distinguish between resonant and antiresonant designs. Using a broadband antiresonant SAM leads to generation of highly-chirped pulses with 30 ps duration and 10 nm spectral width [Fig.1(b)]. The output pulses are extra-cavity dechirped down to 550 fs duration. By increasing the strength of the mode-locking mechanism through the combination of the SAM with the NPE process, we obtain shorter pulses with slightly boarder spectra. Indeed, the output pulse duration is decreased from 30 ps to 13 ps by adjusting the wave-plates settings. The dechirped pulse duration is then shortened to 450 fs. We note that the current laser performances are limited to 1 J by the available pump power. Using a resonant SAM structure, the output pulse duration is decreased to 7 ps [Fig.1(b)]. This pulse shortening results from the spectral filtering induced by the limited SAM bandwidth. All these results are in good agreement with numerical simulations which will be discussed in this communication. © 2011 IEEE.