High average and peak power femtosecond large-pitch photonic-crystal-fiber laser
Date
2011
Authors
Baumgartl, M.
Jansen F.
Stutzki F.
Jauregui, C.
Ortaç, B.
Limpert J.
Tünnermann, A.
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Optics Letters
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1469592
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36
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2
Pages
244 - 246
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English
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Article
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Abstract
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 large-pitch photonic-crystal fiber is used. The self-starting fiber laser delivers 27 W of average power at 50:57 MHz repetition rate, resulting in 534 nJ of pulse energy. The laser produces positively chirped 2 ps output pulses, which are compressed down to sub-100 fs, leading to pulse peak powers as high as 3:2 MW. © 2011 Optical Society of America.
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Average power, Femtoseconds, Gain medium, Output pulse, Peak power, Pulse energies, Repetition rate, Self-starting, Ytterbium-doped, Fiber lasers, Fibers, Flight dynamics, Pulse repetition rate, Ytterbium, Mode-locked fiber lasers