Femtosecond fiber CPA system in a single pass configuration

Authors

  • Michał Laskownicki Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Jan Szczepanek Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Yuriy Stepanenko Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
  • Piotr Skibiński Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Piotr Wasylczyk Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
  • Michał Nejbauer Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Czesław Radzewicz Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v6i1.444

Abstract

We present a compact Yb-doped fiber chirped pulse amplification system set in a single pass configuration. The system is capable of delivering 34μJ pulses with 200kHz repetition rate. When seeded with a low average power oscillator, the amplifier optical-to-optical efficiency is as high as 37% and the gain reaches 52dB. Temporal pulse degradation due to self-phase modulation is explored. One stage amplification allowed us to limit the set-up complexity, typical for multi-stage CPA systems.

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2014-03-31

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M. Laskownicki, “Femtosecond fiber CPA system in a single pass configuration”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. pp. 8–10, Mar. 2014.

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014)

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