Generation of megawatt peak power picosecond pulses from a divided-pulse fiber amplifier (original) (raw)

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L. J. Kong,1,2L. M. Zhao,1S. Lefrancois,1D. G. Ouzounov,1C. X. Yang,2and F. W. Wise1,*

1Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

2State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

*Corresponding author: fww1@cornell.edu

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Abstract

Control of nonlinearity is a challenge in fiber amplifiers designed to generate pulses of a few picoseconds duration, and as a result, picosecond fiber amplifiers have failed to reach peak power of 1MW. Divided-pulse amplification, combined with the use of circular polarization, allows the generation of 2.2 ps pulses with energy as high as 2.5 μJ and peak power of 1 MW.

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