Performance Enhancements of Femtosecond Fiber Amplifier by Pump Wavelength Optimization

We demonstrate an efficient scheme to accelerate the self-similar pulse evolution and reduce the intensity noise of a free-running femtosecond fiber amplifier based on the pump wavelength optimization. Experiments and simulations indicate the enhanced tolerances of the pulse self-similar amplificati...

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Main Authors: Sijia Wang, Peng Qin, Huibin Wang
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:International Journal of Optics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5514089
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description We demonstrate an efficient scheme to accelerate the self-similar pulse evolution and reduce the intensity noise of a free-running femtosecond fiber amplifier based on the pump wavelength optimization. Experiments and simulations indicate the enhanced tolerances of the pulse self-similar amplification to the seed signal power and pump wavelength fluctuations, with the optimum 915 nm pump wavelength. ∼20% increase in the compressed pulse quality and ∼31% reduction in the amplifier root-mean-square (RMS) relative intensity noise (RIN) (1.5 kHz to 5 MHz) have been observed, even with a more than 4 times higher pump laser diode (LD) RIN than the case of 976 nm. ∼50 fs transform-limited pulses are generated with the ∼0.03% amplifier RMS RIN. The proposed scheme can lower the requirements of low-noise self-similar femtosecond fiber amplifiers on the power stability of the seed oscillator and the thermal control of the pump LD, thus denoting potentials for the various satellite-based high-precision applications of femtosecond laser in space.
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spelling doaj-art-df85e0654e624f77bfde30eb1ba5e29b2025-08-20T02:21:09ZengWileyInternational Journal of Optics1687-93841687-93922021-01-01202110.1155/2021/55140895514089Performance Enhancements of Femtosecond Fiber Amplifier by Pump Wavelength OptimizationSijia Wang0Peng Qin1Huibin Wang2China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, ChinaChina Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, ChinaChina Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, ChinaWe demonstrate an efficient scheme to accelerate the self-similar pulse evolution and reduce the intensity noise of a free-running femtosecond fiber amplifier based on the pump wavelength optimization. Experiments and simulations indicate the enhanced tolerances of the pulse self-similar amplification to the seed signal power and pump wavelength fluctuations, with the optimum 915 nm pump wavelength. ∼20% increase in the compressed pulse quality and ∼31% reduction in the amplifier root-mean-square (RMS) relative intensity noise (RIN) (1.5 kHz to 5 MHz) have been observed, even with a more than 4 times higher pump laser diode (LD) RIN than the case of 976 nm. ∼50 fs transform-limited pulses are generated with the ∼0.03% amplifier RMS RIN. The proposed scheme can lower the requirements of low-noise self-similar femtosecond fiber amplifiers on the power stability of the seed oscillator and the thermal control of the pump LD, thus denoting potentials for the various satellite-based high-precision applications of femtosecond laser in space.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5514089
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