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High power femtosecond chirped pulse amplification in large mode area photonic bandgap Bragg fibers

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We report on high power amplification of femtosecond pulses in 40-μm core diameter Yb-doped photonic bandgap Bragg fibers. The robustness to bending and transverse spatial behavior of these fibers is analyzed through simulations. The fibers are used in both stages of a moderately stretched (150 ps) femtosecond chirped pulsed amplification (CPA) system. A compressed average power of 6.3 W is obtained using a low-index polymer-coated Bragg fiber with excellent beam quality and high efficiency, in agreement with numerical simulations. The use of an air-clad Bragg fiber allows us to scale the output power to 47 W at a repetition rate of 35 MHz. This experiment demonstrates the great potential of Bragg fibers to increase the mode area and the power of practical bending-tolerant femtosecond fiber systems.

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  1. Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91127, Palaiseau, France

    L. Daniault, M. Hanna, F. Druon & P. Georges

  2. Xlim, UMR 6172 CNRS—University of Limoges, 123 Avenue A. Thomas, 87060, Limoges cedex, France

    D. A. Gaponov, S. Février & P. Roy

  3. Fiber Optics Research Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, 38 Vavilov Street, Moscow, 119333, Russia

    M. E. Likhachev

  4. Institute of Chemistry of High Purity Substances, 49 Tropinin Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    M. Y. Salganskii & M. V. Yashkov

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Daniault, L., Gaponov, D.A., Hanna, M. et al. High power femtosecond chirped pulse amplification in large mode area photonic bandgap Bragg fibers. Appl. Phys. B 103, 615–621 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4446-y

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