High-repetition rate, high-power femtosecond fiber laser

B. Ortac; A. Hideur; M. Brunel; G. Martel

doi:10.1117/12.646192

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23 February 2006 High repetition rate high power femtosecond fiber laser

B. Ortac, A. Hideur, M. Brunel, G. Martel

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Proceedings Volume 6102, Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 610225 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.646192
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We report passive harmonic mode locking of a high-power Yb-doped double-clad fiber laser operating in both the normal- and the anomalous-dispersion regimes with a fundamental repetition rate of 20.4 MHz. In the anomalous-dispersion regime (total cavity GVD of -0.1 ps2), 1-ps, 125-pJ pulses are emitted at a repetition rate of 408 MHz. When the total net dispersion is close to zero (about -0.004 ps2), 680 fs, 48 pJ pulses are emitted at a repetition rate higher than 2 GHz. The supermodes suppression is than about 25 dB. In the normal-dispersion regime (total cavity GVD of +0.047 ps2), 116-fs, 1.7-nJ pulses are emitted at a repetition rate of 102 MHz with a supermodes suppression of more than 60 dB. We also report a new regime of multiple pulsing emission observed with this fiber laser : the stable emission of two pairs of bound pulses exhibiting different time separations and uniformly separated in the same cavity round trip. Keywords: Harmonic mode locking, multiple pulsing, bound states.

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B. Ortac, A. Hideur, M. Brunel, and G. Martel "High repetition rate high power femtosecond fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 6102, Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 610225 (23 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.646192

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