Graphene-multilayer-saturable-absorber-based passively mode-locked Ho-doped fiber front-end for seeding of a 1-J/1-kW Ho:YAG cryogenically cooled thin-disk laser system (Conference Presentation)

Jitka Černohorská; Martin Smrž; Michael Písařík; Reza Amani; Michal Jelínek Jr.; Pavel Peterka; Akira Endo; Tomáš Mocek

doi:10.1117/12.2290580

14 March 2018 Graphene-multilayer-saturable-absorber-based passively mode-locked Ho-doped fiber front-end for seeding of a 1-J/1-kW Ho:YAG cryogenically cooled thin-disk laser system (Conference Presentation)

Jitka Černohorská, Martin Smrž, Michael Písařík, Reza Amani, Michal Jelínek Jr., Pavel Peterka, Akira Endo, Tomáš Mocek

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Proceedings Volume 10511, Solid State Lasers XXVII: Technology and Devices; 1051108 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290580
Event: SPIE LASE, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Hi-tech industrial or biotechnological laser applications request for picosecond pulsed 2-um laser generating sub-1-J pulses in >kHz repetition range. At Hilase development of laser system with target to generate 1-J picosecond pulses with 1-kHz repetition rate has started. Design of the system based on Ho:YAG thin-disk generating at 2.1-um is divided into several phases. First phase includes demonstration of new mode-locked graphen-based saturable absorber Ho-doped fiber laser concept followed by preamplifier systems delivering 10-uJ pulses. Pulses are then amplified to >10-mJ level in Ho:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier operating at 10-kHz, and finally amplified in double stage cryogenically-cooled multi-pass amplifier to 1-J at 1-kHz so average output power reaches 1-kW in mid-IR. We present a concept of this laser system with emphasize on the front-end and the first regen. The holmium fiber front-end is pumped by a continuous wave 0.5-W thulium fiber laser generating at wavelength of 1950-nm. Mode-locking in the oscillator is reached by graphene multilayer optical element as a passive saturable absorber (GSA). The GSA provides broadband wavelength operation and is promising for MIR sources. In the laser setup, the GSA is placed in a free-space cavity as a part of ring laser configuration. This oscillator produces <10-ps-pulses with ~nJ energy and <40-MHz repetition rate. The repetition rate reduces acousto-optic modulator, pulses are pre-amplified in a chain containing Ho-doped fibers and a single crystal fiber to 10-uJ/10-to-100-kHz, and seeded to thin-disk regen. We expect demonstration of the front-end, detailed design of first regenerative amplifier and conceptual design of full system.

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Jitka Černohorská, Martin Smrž, Michael Písařík, Reza Amani, Michal Jelínek Jr., Pavel Peterka, Akira Endo, and Tomáš Mocek "Graphene-multilayer-saturable-absorber-based passively mode-locked Ho-doped fiber front-end for seeding of a 1-J/1-kW Ho:YAG cryogenically cooled thin-disk laser system (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10511, Solid State Lasers XXVII: Technology and Devices, 1051108 (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290580

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Fiber lasers

Fiber amplifiers

Laser systems engineering

Mode locking

Optical amplifiers

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