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Development of 2 ^m fiber front-end for Ho:YAG thin disk amplifier
J. Huynh1,2, J. Cernohorská1,2, M. Písarík1, P. Peterka3, M. Smrz1, T. Mocek1
1HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Dolní Brezany, Czech
Republic
2Czech Technical University in Prague- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Department of Physical Electronics, Praha, Czech Republic
3Institute of Photonics and Electronics ASCR- v.v.i, Fiber lasers and non-linear optics, Praha, Czech Republic
Over the past years mid-infrared lasers have attracted considerable technological and scientific interests. 2 um sources can be used in various applications such as: remote sensing [1], free space communication [2], LIDAR [3], material processing of polymers [4], medicine and surgery [5], or pump sources for mid-IR OPA [6].
In this paper we present development of 2 p,m fiber front-end for Ho: YAG thin disk amplifier with average power >10 W. The front-end consists of passively mode-locked soliton holmium fiber ring oscillator followed by thulium/holmium-fiber tandem amplifier. Self-starting holmium fiber oscillator work in soliton operation at 23 MHz repetition rate, 15 mW of output average power and 1 ps output pulse duration.
Progress and current status of 2 p,m laser system (PERLA D) at HiLASE centre will be presented.
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