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SYLL: Symposium Lasersysteme und Laseranwendungen: Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Trends

SYLL 1: Lasersysteme

SYLL 1.1: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 13:30–14:00, A 001

Ultrafast Fiber Laser Systems — •Jens Limpert and Andreas Tünnermann — FSU Jena, Institute of Applied Physics, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745 Jena, Germany

The recent demonstration of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers with a continuous-wave output power approaching the 10 kW-level with diffraction-limited beam quality has proven that fiber lasers constitute a power-scalable solid-state laser concept. To generate intense pulses from a fiber several fundamental limitations have to be overcome. Nevertheless, novel experimental strategies and fiber designs offer an enormous potential towards ultrafast laser systems with high average powers (>kW) and high peak power (>GW). We review the challenges, achievements and perspectives of ultrashort pulse generation and amplification in fibers as well as applications e.g. micromachining and high harmonic generation.