• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 51, Issue 6, 20210442 (2022)
Yan Xu1、2, Zhigang Peng1、2、*, Yuhang Shi1、2, Beibei Wang1、2, Zhaochen Cheng1、2, and Pu Wang1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Laser Engineering, Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • 2Beijing Engineering Research Center of Laser Applied Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • show less
    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20210442 Cite this Article
    Yan Xu, Zhigang Peng, Yuhang Shi, Beibei Wang, Zhaochen Cheng, Pu Wang. Hundred-watt-level 1 030 nm fiber-bulk hybrid amplified laser[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(6): 20210442 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Fiber-bulk hybrid amplification technology combines the advantages of fiber lasers and bulk amplifiers to obtain a compact and low-cost high power ultrashort pulse laser. Therefore, a high average power ultrashort pulse laser was designed based on Yb-doped fiber-bulk hybrid amplification technology. The laser was consisted of an Yb-doped all-fiber laser and two-stage bulk amplifiers. The first bulk amplifier was based on Yb: YAG single crystal fiber, and the second bulk amplifier was based on Yb: YAG rod with unpolished barrel. The all-fiber front end delivered 6.5 W average power, 52.9 MHz repetition rate and 47.5 ps pulse duration. The single crystal fiber amplifier obtained an average power of 40 W at the backward pump power of 182 W through a single-pass amplification. The Yb: YAG rod amplifier outputted an average output power of 122.9 W at the backward pump power of 307 W in single-pass configuration. After removing the depolarization part introduced by thermal effect, an average output power of 107.3 W with linear polarization state was obtained, and the corresponding slope efficiency was 26.1%. The pulse width of 12.1 ps and center wavelength of 1030.6 nm with spectral width of 2.4 nm were achieved. At the maximum output power of 107.3 W, a beam quality factor of 1.45 and 1.20 were measured along the vertical and horizontal direction, respectively.
    $ L = \frac{P}{{M_x^2M_y^2{\lambda ^2}}} $(1)

    View in Article

    $ M_p^2 = \frac{{\pi \times NA \times {r_f}}}{\lambda } $(2)

    View in Article

    $ {I_p}( {z + {\rm d}z} ) = {I_p}( z )\mathit{\rm exp}( {( { - {\sigma _{ap}}{N_1} + {\sigma _{ep}}{N_2}} ){\rm d}}z ) $(3)

    View in Article

    $ {I_s}\left( {z + {\rm d}z} \right) = {I_s}\left( z \right)\mathit{\rm exp}\left( {\left( {{\sigma _{es}}{N_2} - {\sigma _{as}}{N_1}} \right) {\rm d}z} \right) $(4)

    View in Article

    $ {N_2} = \dfrac{{{\sigma _{ap}}\dfrac{{{\lambda _p}{I_p}}}{{hc}} + {\sigma _{as}}\dfrac{{{\lambda _l}{I_s}}}{{hc}}}}{{\left( {{\sigma _{ap}} + {\sigma _{ep}}} \right)\dfrac{{{\lambda _p}{I_p}}}{{hc}} + \left( {{\sigma _{as}} + {\sigma _{es}}} \right)\dfrac{{{\lambda _l}{I_s}}}{{hc}} + \dfrac{1}{\tau }}} \times N $(5)

    View in Article

    $ {N_1} = N - {N_2} $(6)

    View in Article

    $ {\omega _p}\left( z \right) = {\omega _{p0}}\sqrt {1 + {{\left( {\frac{{{\lambda _p} \cdot M_p^2 \cdot \left( {z - {z_{p0}}} \right)}}{{\pi n\omega _{p0}^2}}} \right)}^2}} $(7)

    View in Article

    Yan Xu, Zhigang Peng, Yuhang Shi, Beibei Wang, Zhaochen Cheng, Pu Wang. Hundred-watt-level 1 030 nm fiber-bulk hybrid amplified laser[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(6): 20210442
    Download Citation