Generation of picosecond pulses directly from a 100 W, burst-mode, doping-managed Yb-doped fiber amplifier

dc.citation.epage239en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage236en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber39en_US
dc.contributor.authorElahi, P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorEldeniz, Y. B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorIlday, F. O.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-28T12:02:17Z
dc.date.available2015-07-28T12:02:17Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Physicsen_US
dc.description.abstractBurst-mode laser systems offer increased effectiveness in material processing while requiring lower individual pulse energies. Fiber amplifiers operating in this regime generate low powers in the order of 1 W. We present a Yb-doped fiber amplifier, utilizing doping management, that scales the average power up to 100 W. The laser system produces bursts at 1 MHz, where each burst comprises 10 pulses with 10 mu J energy per pulse and is separated in time by 10 ns. The high-burst repetition rate allows substantial simplification of the setup over previous demonstrations of burst-mode operation in fiber lasers. The total energy in each burst is 100 mu J and the average power achieved within the burst is 1 kW. The pulse evolution in the final stage of amplification is initiated as self-similar amplification, which is quickly altered as the pulse spectrum exceeds the gain bandwidth. By prechirping the pulses launched into the amplifier, 17 ps long pulses are generated without using external pulse compression. The peak power of the pulses is similar to 0.6 MW. (C) 2014 Optical Society of Americaen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1364/OL.39.000236en_US
dc.identifier.issn0146-9592
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/12636
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherOptical Society of Americaen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.000236en_US
dc.source.titleOptics Lettersen_US
dc.subjectHigh-repetition-rateen_US
dc.subjectAmplificationen_US
dc.subjectEnergyen_US
dc.subjectLaseren_US
dc.subjectAblationen_US
dc.subjectSolidsen_US
dc.subjectPoweren_US
dc.titleGeneration of picosecond pulses directly from a 100 W, burst-mode, doping-managed Yb-doped fiber amplifieren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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