High-power nanosecond ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively synchronized with a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser.
We report on laser synchronization between a high-power nanosecond fiber laser and an ultrashort Ti:sapphire laser by cross-absorption modulation and power amplification. The nanosecond pulses were generated by a long-cavity ytterbium-doped fiber laser that was passively synchronized to a 70 fs Ti:sapphire laser with a remarkable cavity mismatch tolerance of about 8 cm as a result of resonance-enhanced cross-absorption modulation in additional rare-earth-doped fiber. By using a two-stage Yb-doped fiber preamplifier and a two-stage double-clad fiber power amplifier in cascade, the synchronized nanosecond pulses were amplified to 131 W of average power, corresponding to 0.55 mJ of single-pulse energy at a repetition rate of 240 KHz, with a timing jitter of 13 ps.
Yan
Ming
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State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Li
Wenxue
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Hao
Qiang
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Li
Yao
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Yang
Kangwen
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Zhou
Hui
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Zeng
Heping
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