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High-power single-stage single-crystal Yb:YAG fiber amplifier for radially polarized ultrashort laser pulses

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We report on a single-stage high-power amplification of a radially polarized mode-locked laser beam in a single-crystal fiber (SCF) amplifier. The seed beam was amplified by a factor of 5.0 to an average output power of 66.3 W. The pulse duration of the amplified pulses was measured to be 909 fs at a repetition rate of 40.7 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy of 1.63 \(\upmu\)J and a resulting pulse peak power of 1.58 MW. The output beam showed a very high quality of the doughnut-shaped intensity distribution and furthermore a high radial polarization purity.

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  1. Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 43, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Eckerle, Frieder Beirow, Tom Dietrich, Marwan Abdou Ahmed & Thomas Graf

  2. Graduate School of Excellence advanced Manufacturing Engineering (GSaME), University of Stuttgart, Nobelstrasse 12, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Eckerle

  3. Institut für Technische Optik (ITO), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Frederik Schaal, Christof Pruss & Wolfgang Osten

  4. Fibercryst SAS, Parc d’activité Wilson Bât A1, 31 Rue Wilson, 69150, Decines Charpieu, France

    Nicolas Aubry, Matthieu Perrier & Julien Didierjean

  5. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Xavier Délen, François Balembois & Patrick Georges

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under Grant Agreement no. 619237 and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

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Eckerle, M., Beirow, F., Dietrich, T. et al. High-power single-stage single-crystal Yb:YAG fiber amplifier for radially polarized ultrashort laser pulses. Appl. Phys. B 123, 139 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6720-0

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