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In this chapter, we first considered practical aspects in design and construction of relatively high-average-power picosecond Yb-doped fiber laser systems. Employing a highly stable diode-pumped solid-state laser as the seed source together with proper design of the fiber amplifiers, we were able to achieve an average output power of ~60 W with 73 W pumping using just 2 amplifier stages based on regular non-PM Yb-doped fiber. Applying modulation technique to generate pulse bursts at 700 kHz allowed us to optimize dynamically saturated amplifier and extract higher energies from the MOFA. This was used to improve the nonlinear conversion efficiency in the cases of second (16 % vs. 4 %) and fourth (8 % vs. 2 %) harmonic generation compared to regular pulse trains at ~250 MHz. We will also describe mode-locking techniques of fiber-based oscillators based on ring type cavities with NPE port. Our simulation results based on coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations showed the possibility to generate either regular mode-locked pulse trains or noise-like pulses in such oscillators. Novel scheme of supercontinuum generation by noise-like pulses in normally dispersive single-mode fibers was demonstrated. The SC exhibits low threshold (43 nJ) and flat spectrum over the wavelength range of 1,050–1,250 nm.
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Pan, CL., Zaytsev, A., Lin, CH., You, YJ. (2015). Progress in Short-Pulse Yb-Doped Fiber Oscillators and Amplifiers. In: Lee, CC. (eds) The Current Trends of Optics and Photonics. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 129. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9392-6_3
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