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Practical all-fiber source of high-power, 120-fs pulses at 1 micrometre
F O Ilday1, H Lim, J R Buckley
1Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. ilday@ccmr.cornell.edu
Optics Letters
|August 9, 2003
Abstract:
Amplification of femtosecond pulses at 1.03 micrometre in a standard Yb-doped single-mode fiber is reported. A pulse energy of 8 nJ and an average power of 400 mW are obtained, limited by available pump power. To our knowledge these are the highest pulse energy and average power obtained from an integrated, single-mode fiber amplifier. After dechirping, 120-fs, 6-nJ pulses are obtained. A practical fiber-based source with performance comparable with that of a bulk solid-state laser is thus demonstrated, and scaling to substantially higher powers will be possible.