Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 9, 091401(2021)

High power Yb-fiber laser amplifier based on nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification at a repetition rate of 1 MHz

Renchong Lü1,2, Hao Teng2,5、*, Jiangfeng Zhu1、**, Yang Yu1,2, Wei Liu4, Guoqing Chang2, and Zhiyi Wei2,3,5、***
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3School of Physical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
  • 5Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
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    Renchong Lü, Hao Teng, Jiangfeng Zhu, Yang Yu, Wei Liu, Guoqing Chang, Zhiyi Wei, "High power Yb-fiber laser amplifier based on nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification at a repetition rate of 1 MHz," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 091401 (2021)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

    Received: Dec. 30, 2020

    Accepted: Feb. 26, 2021

    Published Online: Jun. 2, 2021

    The Author Email: Hao Teng (hteng@iphy.ac.cn), Jiangfeng Zhu (jfzhu@xidian.edu.cn), Zhiyi Wei (zywei@iphy.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.091401

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