We theoretically and experimentally show coherent pulse stacking (CPS) can accommodate tens-of-fs pulse durations and has negligible stacking fidelity degradation with increased pulse bandwidth. Simulations prove large number of tens-of-fs pulses can be stacked with high pre-pulse contrast. In an experiment, nine spectrally broadened and fiber amplified pulses are stacked using four cascaded cavities. CPS of pulses with different spectral bandwidths, up to 75 nm base-to-base (<50 fs transform-limited duration), are tested, showing negligible stacking degradation due to increased bandwidth. This work provides a path towards high energy, tens-of-fs pulses from ultrafast fiber lasers.
We demonstrated 55-fs pulses from spectrally combining two chirped-pulse fiber channels operating at partially-overlapped spectral bands, with a pulse shaper incorporated in each channel. The spectral intensity and phase shaping in two fiber channels are coherently-spectrally synthesized by phase-synchronizing the two channels at the overlapped spectrum. To the best of our knowledge, 55 fs is the shortest pulse duration from a spectrally combined fiber system at one-micron Yb wavelength, and this work is the first demonstration of coherent spectral synthesis of two pulse shapers. This work provides a promising path toward high-energy, tens-of-fs fiber chirped-pulse amplifier systems.
We have developed a scalable, ultrafast laser beam combination scheme, which can combine many beams using two diffractive optics. A feature of this approach is the information contained in the uncombined output beams, which can be used to derive phase error information. We show that a machine-learning algorithm can learn to stabilize beam combination with high efficiency, by finding correlations between uncombined output beam patterns and phase errors.
We demonstrate, to our knowledge, the first operation of a simultaneous spatial combining and CPSA system that provides 9mJ from two amplifier channels and coherently stacks 81 pulses to a single pulse and compresses the output to ~515fs duration. This demonstrates that CPSA with spatial coherent combining enables energy scaling of ultrashort pulses with fewer parallel channels. Future work will involve increasing energy per channel, average power per channel, the number of fiber channels and reducing the pulse duration.
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