High peak-power stretcher-free femtosecond fiber amplifier using passive spatio-temporal coherent combining

被引：42
作者：
Daniault, L. [1 ]
Hanna, M. [1 ]
Papadopoulos, D. N. [1 ,2 ]
Zaouter, Y. [3 ]
Mottay, E. [3 ]
Druon, F. [1 ]
Georges, P. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, Inst Opt, Lab Charles Fabry, F-91127 Palaiseau, France
[2] Univ Paris 06, Ecole Polytech, CNRS, Lab Utilisat Lasers Intenses, Palaiseau, France
[3] Amplitude Syst, F-33600 Pessac, France
来源：
OPTICS EXPRESS | 2012年 / 20卷 / 19期
关键词：
CHIRPED-PULSE-AMPLIFIERS; AMPLIFICATION; ENERGY; SYSTEM; GENERATION;
D O I：
10.1364/OE.20.021627
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
We report on the passive coherent combining of up to 8 temporally and spatially separated ultrashort pulses amplified in a stretcher-free ytterbium-doped fiber system. An initial femtosecond pulse is split into 4 temporal replicas using divided-pulse amplification, and subsequently divided in two counter-propagating beams in a Sagnac interferometer containing a fiber amplifier. The spatio-temporal distribution of the peak-power inside the amplifier allows the generation of record 3.1 mu J and 50 fs pulses at 1 MHz of repetition rate with 52 MW of peak-power from a stretcher-free fiber amplifier and without additional nonlinear post-compression stages. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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页码：21627 / 21634
页数：8
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