• 文献标题:   Chirped pulse amplification of a femtosecond Er-doped fiber laser mode-locked by a graphene saturable absorber
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SOBON G, SOTOR J, PASTERNAK I, STRUPINSKI W, KRZEMPEK K, KACZMAREK P, ABRAMSKI KM
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  • 出版物名称:   LASER PHYSICS LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1612-2011 EI 1612-202X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Wroclaw Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   33
  • DOI:   10.1088/1612-2011/10/3/035104
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

In this work we demonstrate for the first time, to our knowledge, a chirped pulse amplification (CPA) setup utilizing a graphene mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser as a seed source. The system consists of a mode-locked Er-fiber oscillator operating at 1560 nm wavelength, a grating-based pulse stretcher, two-stage amplifier and a grating compressor. The presented setup allows the amplification of the seed up to 1 W of average power (1000 times amplification) with linearly polarized 810 fs pulses and 20 nJ pulse energy at a 55 MHz repetition rate. The whole design is based on single-mode fibers, which allows one to maintain excellent beam quality, with M-2 less than 1.17.