1.2 kW all-fiber narrow-linewidth picosecond MOPA system

Achieving an all-fiber ultra-fast system with above kW average power and mJ pulse energy is extremely challenging.This paper demonstrated a picosecond monolithic master oscillator power amplifier system at a 25 MHz repetition frequency with an average power of approximately 1.2 kW,a pulse energy of approximately 48μJ and a peak power of approximately 0.45 MW.The nonlinear effects were suppressed by adopting a dispersion stretched seed pulse(with a narrow linewidth of 0.052 nm)and a multi-mode master amplifier with an extra-large mode area;then an ultimate narrow bandwidth of 1.32 nm and a moderately broadened pulse of approximately 107 ps were achieved.Meanwhile,the great spatio-temporal stability was verified experimentally,and no sign of transverse mode instability appeared even at the maximum output power.The system has shown great power and energy capability with a sacrificed beam propagation product of 5.28 mm·mrad.In addition,further scaling of the peak power and pulse energy can be achieved by employing a lower repetition and a conventional compressor.

Experimental investigation of the stimulated Raman scattering effect in high-power nanosecond superfluorescent fiber source

In this work,we experimentally investigate the dependence of the stimulated Raman scattering(SRS)effect on the seed linewidth of a high-power nanosecond superfluorescent fiber source(ns-SFS).The results reveal that the SRS in the ns-SFS amplifier is significantly influenced by the full width at half maximum(FWHM)of the ns-SFS seed,and there is an optimal FWHM linewidth of 2 nm to achieve the lowest SRS in our case.The first-order SRS power ratio increases rapidly when the seed’s linewidth deviates from the optimal FWHM linewidth.By power scaling the ns-SFS seed with the optimal FWHM linewidth,a narrowband all-fiberized ns-SFS amplifier is achieved with a maximum average power of 602 W,pulse energy of 24.1 mJ and corresponding peak power of 422.5 kW.This is the highest average power and pulse energy achieved for all-fiberized ns-SFS amplifiers to the best of our knowledge.