• High Power Laser Science and Engineering
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 02000e25 (2023)
Tao Wang, Can Li*, Bo Ren, Kun Guo, Jian Wu, Jinyong Leng, and Pu Zhou*
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  • College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
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    DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2023.12 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Tao Wang, Can Li, Bo Ren, Kun Guo, Jian Wu, Jinyong Leng, Pu Zhou. High-power femtosecond laser generation from an all-fiber linearly polarized chirped pulse amplifier[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2023, 11(2): 02000e25 Copy Citation Text show less

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    An all-fiber high-power linearly polarized chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system is experimentally demonstrated. Through stretching the pulse duration to a full width of approximately 2 ns with two cascaded chirped fiber Bragg gratings (CFBGs), a maximum average output power of 612 W is achieved from a high-gain Yb-doped fiber that has a core diameter of 20 μm with a slope efficiency of approximately 68% at the repetition rate of 80 MHz. At the maximum output power, the polarization degree is 92.5% and the M2 factor of the output beam quality is approximately 1.29; the slight performance degradations are attributed to the thermal effects in the main amplifier. By optimizing the B-integral of the amplifier and finely adjusting the higher-order dispersion of one of the CFBGs, the pulse width is compressed to 863 fs at the highest power with a compression efficiency of 72%, corresponding to a maximum compressed average power of 440.6 W, single pulse energy of 5.5 μJ and peak power of about 4.67 MW. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest average power of a femtosecond laser directly generated from an all-fiber linearly polarized CPA system.
    $$\begin{align*}B=\gamma {P}_0\left\{\left[\exp \left({gL}_{\mathrm{g}}\right)-1\right]/g+\exp \left({gL}_{\mathrm{g}}\right){L}_{\mathrm{p}}\right\},\end{align*}$$ ()

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    Tao Wang, Can Li, Bo Ren, Kun Guo, Jian Wu, Jinyong Leng, Pu Zhou. High-power femtosecond laser generation from an all-fiber linearly polarized chirped pulse amplifier[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2023, 11(2): 02000e25
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