Fibre amplifier based on an ytterbium-doped active tapered fibre for the generation of megawatt peak power ultrashort optical pulses

Journal Article · Sun May 31 04:00:00 EDT 2015 · Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1070/QE2015V045N05ABEH015762· OSTI ID:22551254

Koptev, M Yu; Anashkina, E A; Lipatov, D S; Andrianov, A V; Muravyev, S V; Kim, A V ^[1]; Bobkov, K K; Likhachev, M E; Levchenko, A E; Aleshkina, S S; Semjonov, S L; Denisov, A N; Bubnov, M M ^[2]; Laptev, A Yu; Gur'yanov, A N ^[3]

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1. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation)
2. Fiber Optics Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
3. G.G.Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod (Russian Federation)

We report a new ytterbium-doped active tapered fibre used in the output amplifier stage of a fibre laser system for the generation of megawatt peak power ultrashort pulses in the microjoule energy range. The tapered fibre is single-mode at its input end (core and cladding diameters of 10 and 80 μm) and multimode at its output end (diameters of 45 and 430 μm), but ultrashort pulses are amplified in a quasi-single-mode regime. Using a hybrid Er/Yb fibre system comprising an erbium master oscillator and amplifier at a wavelength near 1.5 μm, a nonlinear wavelength converter to the 1 μm range and a three-stage ytterbium-doped fibre amplifier, we obtained pulses of 1 μJ energy and 7 ps duration, which were then compressed by a grating-pair dispersion compressor with 60% efficiency to a 130 fs duration, approaching the transform-limited pulse duration. The present experimental data agree well with numerical simulation results for pulse amplification in the threestage amplifier. (extreme light fields and their applications)

• OSTI ID: 22551254
• Journal Information: Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.), Journal Name: Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.) Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 45; ISSN 1063-7818
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
AMPLIFICATION
AMPLIFIERS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DOPED MATERIALS
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY RANGE
ERBIUM
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FIBERS
GRATINGS
LASERS
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
OPTICAL DISPERSION
OSCILLATORS
PEAK LOAD
PULSES
WAVELENGTHS
YTTERBIUM