156 micro-J ultrafast Thulium-doped fiber laser

Peng Wan; Lih-Mei Yang; Jian Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2005326

26 February 2013 156 micro-J ultrafast Thulium-doped fiber laser

Peng Wan, Lih-Mei Yang, Jian Liu

Proceedings Volume 8601, Fiber Lasers X: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 860138 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2005326
Event: SPIE LASE, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A high energy, high power ultrafast Tm doped fiber laser system was successfully developed. Pulse energy of 156 μJ and average power of 15.6 W were achieved. The laser system consisted of a mode-locked 2020 nm seed oscillator and multiple-stage power amplifiers. The seed included 30 m-long dispersion compensating fiber and emitted slightly chirped pulses with spectrum bandwidth of 8 nm. The mode-locking was stable and self-started. Repetition rate of seed oscillator was 2.5 MHz. The seed pulses were stretched with anomalous dispersion fiber to the duration of 320 ps. An AOM was used as a pulse picker to lower the repetition rate. A two-stage pre-amplifier was used to boost the pulse energy to 3 μJ. Pulse energies of up to 156 μJ were obtained from the final stage of power amplifier at a repetition rate of 100 kHz. Pulse durations of 780 fs were obtained after pulse compression. High OSNR and low background noise were also achieved at this low repetition rate.

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Peng Wan, Lih-Mei Yang, and Jian Liu "156 micro-J ultrafast Thulium-doped fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 8601, Fiber Lasers X: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 860138 (26 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2005326

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