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Low-cost Custom Fabrication and Mode-locked Operation of an All-normal-dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Laser for Multiphoton Microscopy
Published on: November 22, 2019
Millijoule pulse energy Q-switched short-length fiber laser
O Schmidt1, J Rothhardt, F Röser
1Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Applied Physics, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, Jena, Germany. oschmidt@iap.uni-jena.de
Abstract:
We report on a Q-switched short-length fiber laser producing 100 W of average output power at 100 kHz repetition rate and pulse durations as short as 17 ns. Up to 2 mJ of energy and sub-10-ns pulse duration are extracted at lower repetition rates. This performance is obtained by employing a rod-type ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber with a 70 microm core as gain medium, allowing for very short pulse durations, high energy storage, and emission of a single-transverse-mode beam.

