Direct Amplification of 3-ps Pulses to 80 nJ at 50-MHz Repetition Rate in Large-Mode-Area Yb-Fiber
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ouzounov, Dimitre G.; Zhou, Shian; Sinclair, Charles; Wise, Frank W.
- Source
- 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2007
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Pulse amplifiers
Oscillators
Optical pulse generation
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical pulses
Laser excitation
Optical amplifiers
Laser beams
Fiber lasers
Nonlinear distortion
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
We study direct picosecond pulse amplification in large-mode area, double-clad Yb-fiber amplifier. We achieved good-quality 3-ps, 80-nJ pulses in a near diffraction-limited beam. 28-nJ pulses in the green (520 nm) are produced by second-harmonic generation.