ns and fs Fiber Lasers (Invited Paper)

ABSTRACT: Pulse shaping technology is present to mitigate pulse narrowing and SBS effects in high energy/power ns fiber lasers and to balance SPM and gain narrowing in high energy/power fs fiber lasers. © 2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 140,3510; 140,3500; 140,4050. Introduction High energy pulsed fiber lasers have been considered to be an enabling technology to many applications such as Lidar, free space communications, and material processing Ultrafast fiber lasers have been evolved into a new era for replacing solid-state ultrafast lasers and exploring new unprecedented applications. Close to kW and mJ level operation for fiber amplifiers have been demonstrate

Sub-50 fs pulses around 2070 nm from a synchronously-pumped, degenerate OPO

We report generation of 48 fs pulses at a center wavelength of 2070 nm using a degenerate optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously-pumped with a commercially available 36-MHz, femtosecond, mode-locked, Yb-doped fiber laser. The spectral bandwidth of the output is ~137 nm, corresponding to a theoretical, transform-limited pulse width of 33 fs. The threshold of the OPO is less than 10 mW of average pump power. By tuning the cavity length, the output spectrum covers a spectral width of more than 400 nm, limited only by the bandwidth of the cavity mirrors

Sub-50 fs pulses around 2070 nm from a synchronously-pumped, degenerate OPO

We report generation of 48 fs pulses at a center wavelength of 2070 nm using a degenerate optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously-pumped with a commercially available 36-MHz, femtosecond, mode-locked, Yb-doped fiber laser. The spectral bandwidth of the output is ~137 nm, corresponding to a theoretical, transform-limited pulse width of 33 fs. The threshold of the OPO is less than 10 mW of average pump power. By tuning the cavity length, the output spectrum covers a spectral width of more than 400 nm, limited only by the bandwidth of the cavity mirrors

Sub-50 fs pulses around 2070 nm from a synchronously-pumped, degenerate OPO,” Opt

Abstract: We report generation of 48 fs pulses at a center wavelength of 2070 nm using a degenerate optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously-pumped with a commercially available 36-MHz, femtosecond, mode-locked, Yb-doped fiber laser. The spectral bandwidth of the output is ~137 nm, corresponding to a theoretical, transform-limited pulse width of 33 fs. The threshold of the OPO is less than 10 mW of average pump power. By tuning the cavity length, the output spectrum covers a spectral width of more than 400 nm, limited only by the bandwidth of the cavity mirrors. Griebner, "175 fs Tm:Lu 2 O 3 laser at 2.07 µm mode-locked using single-walled carbon nanotubes," Opt. Express 20(5), 5313-5318 (201

Fiber-laser-based photoacoustic microscopy and melanoma cell detection

For broad applications in biomedical research involving functional dynamics and clinical studies, a photoacoustic microscopy system should be compact, stable, and fast. In this work, we use a fiber laser as the photoacoustic irradiation source to meet these goals. The laser system measures 45×56×13 cm3. The stability of the laser is attributed to the intrinsic optical fiber-based light amplification and output coupling. Its 50-kHz pulse repetition rate enables fast scanning or extensive signal averaging. At the laser wavelength of 1064 nm, the photoacoustic microscope still has enough sensitivity to image small blood vessels while providing high optical absorption contrast between melanin and hemoglobin. Label-free melanoma cells in flowing bovine blood are imaged in vitro, yielding measurements of both cell size and flow speed

Structural Modification in Er-Yb Doped Zinc Phosphate Glasses with Megahertz Repetition Rate Femtosecond Pulses

Focused femtosecond laser pulses from a 1 MHz fiber laser were used to create modifications in Er-Yb doped zinc phosphate glass. Two glasses with similar phosphate glass networks but different network modifiers were investigated. To understand the resulting changes caused by the femtosecond laser pulses various characterization techniques were employed: glass structural changes were investigated with confocal Raman spectroscopy, defect generation as well as local Er and Yb environment were investigated with confocal fluorescence spectroscopy, and elemental segregation resulting from heat accumulation effects was ascertained by scanning electron microscopy. © 2012 SPIE