A high-energy femtosecond all ytterbium fiber amplifier based on a chirped-pulse amplification(CPA) technique at a repetition rate of 1 MHz seeded by a dispersion-management mode-locked picosecond broadband oscillat...A high-energy femtosecond all ytterbium fiber amplifier based on a chirped-pulse amplification(CPA) technique at a repetition rate of 1 MHz seeded by a dispersion-management mode-locked picosecond broadband oscillator is studied.We find that the compressed pulse duration is dependent on the amplified energy,the pulse duration of 804 fs corresponds to the maximum amplified energy of 10.5 μJ,while the shortest pulse duration of 424 fs corresponds to the amplified energy of 6.75 μJ.The measured energy fluctuation is approximately 0.46% root mean square(RMS) over 2 h.The low-cost femtosecond fiber laser source with super-stability will be widely used in industrial micromachines,medical therapy,and scientific studies.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2012BAC23B03)the National Key Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB922401)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11474002)
文摘A high-energy femtosecond all ytterbium fiber amplifier based on a chirped-pulse amplification(CPA) technique at a repetition rate of 1 MHz seeded by a dispersion-management mode-locked picosecond broadband oscillator is studied.We find that the compressed pulse duration is dependent on the amplified energy,the pulse duration of 804 fs corresponds to the maximum amplified energy of 10.5 μJ,while the shortest pulse duration of 424 fs corresponds to the amplified energy of 6.75 μJ.The measured energy fluctuation is approximately 0.46% root mean square(RMS) over 2 h.The low-cost femtosecond fiber laser source with super-stability will be widely used in industrial micromachines,medical therapy,and scientific studies.