Sub-picosecond double-clad photonic crystal fiber oscillator and amplifier system

A ytterbium-doped large mode area PCF sub-picosecond laser oscillator and amplifier system is experimentally studied. The oscillator which combines NPE and SESAM is operating on the all-normal-dispersion regime and the LMA PCF is used as the gain medium. In the CW mode-locking regime, the oscillator directly generates the pulse at the repetition rate of 83.7 MHz while the pulse duration is 960 fs. The double-clad fiber amplifier system directly generates a high average power of 12.53 W with a pulse duration of 4.1 ps corresponding to the pulse energy of 150 nJ and peak power of 36.6 KW after about 3 m ytterbium doped double clad fiber amplification.