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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
High average and peak power few-cycle laser pulses delivered by fiber pumped OPCPA system
J Rothhardt1, S Hädrich, E Seise
1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Applied Physics, Albert-Einstein-Str 15, 07745 Jena, Germany. rothhardt@iap.uni-jena.de
Abstract:
We report on a high power optical parametric amplifier delivering 8 fs pulses with 6 GW peak power. The system is pumped by a fiber amplifier and operated at 96 kHz repetition rate. The average output power is as high as 6.7 W, which is the highest average power few-cycle pulse laser reported so far. When stabilizing the seed oscillator, the system delivered carrier-envelop phase stable laser pulses. Furthermore, high harmonic generation up to the 33(th) order (21.8 nm) is demonstrated in a Krypton gas jet. In addition, the scalability of the presented laser system is discussed.
