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Tunable millijoule laser based on
Yb:CaF2 : from nanosecond to
femtosecond
Vincent Clet, Alizée Mareczko, Sandrine Ricaud,
Antoine Courjaud, Eric Mottay
Amplitude Systèmes, Pessac, France
Patrice Camy, Jean-Louis Doualan, Richard Moncorgé
CIMAP, Caen, France
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• Company activity
• Technology and products
• Motivations
• Experimental results
• Conclusion
Outline
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- Created in 2000
- >100 employees in ultrafast lasers
- 20M€ turnover
- Products sold in more than 20 countries
- Industrial and scientific lasers
-Applications in medical, semiconductor, pharmaceutics
Company
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Company
Amplitude Systemes - Bordeaux
Compact femtosecond lasers
Amplitude Technologies - Paris
High power femtosecond lasers
Amplitude Laser - Boston
U.S. sales and support
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- A broad range of technologies
- Ti:Sapphire lasers
- Yb solid-state lasers
- Yb fiber lasers
Nothing but ultrafast
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Ti:Sa high intensity lasers
Applications :
• Electron acceleration
Compact accelerators,
wake-field regime
• Proton acceleration,
Cancer therapy
• Interface with LINAC, synchrotrons, future of X-FEL
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Applications
• High order harmonic generation,
Attosecond physics
• Photoinjectors for LINAC
• Femtochemistry, femtosecond spectroscopy
Ti:Sa ultrafast lasers
Higher repetition rates, from 100Hz to 5kHz
Short pulses < 30fs
CEP stabilization is a key technology
At high average power, cryo cooling is used
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Nanosecond pulses (3,3ns) Femtosecond pulses (200 fs)
• Large Heat Affected Zone (HAZ)
• Lack of reproductibility
• Need to adapt wavelength to material
C. Momma, B.N. Chichkov, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, “Short-pulse laser ablation of solid targets”, Opt. Commun. 129, 134 (1996)
• Low ablation threshold
• Limited HAZ
• Efficient and stable process
• Interaction with transparent materials
is possible through multiphoton absorption
Ultrafast lasers for industry?
Typical heat transfer dynamics ~5 ps from electrons to lattice
Multiphoton process allows interaction with any material
High quality micromachining of metal, glass…
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Technology
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A new generation of ultrafast lasers
• We want:
– A compact, reliable, high performance femtosecond laser
• We need:
– Direct diode pumping
– Broadband laser material
– Efficient optical scheme
• We use:
– Ytterbium as the active ion
– All solid-state system
– Small footprint optical cavities
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TECHNOLOGY
Ytterbium lasers : The new generation of Femtosecond laser!
Diode / flash Nd:YAG cavity SHG Ti:Sa laser
800 nm 1064 nm 532 nm 800 nm
Diode Yb:XXX laser
940/980 nm 1030 nm
Traditional femtosecond lasers :
Amplitude Systemes femtosecond lasers :
+ + +
+
• Direct diode pumping capability
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Laser architecture
Oscillator :
• self starting using Semiconductor Nonlinear Mirror
• compact using diode-pumping & dispersive mirrors
• Crystal based : pure soliton pulses, 10-500nJ energy
• Fiber based : compact, lower energy
Amplifiers :
• regenerative amplifiers using crystals (thermal limitations)
• single stage amplifiers using fibers (nonlinearity limitations)
Femtosecond intense lasers : nonlinear issues
Use of Chirped Pulse Amplification architecture (CPA)
oscillator stretcher main amplifier compressor preamplifier nJ µJ-mJ mJ-J
Use of hybrid architecture to exploit benefits of both fiber and crystal technology
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Crystal based solid state lasers
Solid state lasers
Oscillator Amplifier
Pulse energy 20 to 500nJ Up to 2mJ
Stability,
reliability Vibration >5G
Thermal test: 15°C – 35°C
Long term stability (12h): <0.5% RMS
Average power 1 to 5 W Up to 8W
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High power fiber lasers
active core
cladding
pump
light
laser radiation
mirror
mirror
Average power High exchange area:
>20W femtosecond laser
Stability, reliability Vibration >5G
Thermal test: 15°C – 35°C
Long term stability (12h): <0.5% RMS
Pulse energy Non linear effects:
20µJ for PCF
300µJ for rod type fiber
Fiber lasers
Yb-doped core monomode
Pumping area, multimode
Large Mode Area
Double-clad architecture
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Products
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Production
- Clean room production:
- From mechanical assembly to
quality control
- High production capacity
- Vibration and temperature cycling
Laser quality control
Mechanical assembly
Oscillator alignment workstations
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10 nJ 100 nJ 1 mJ 100 mJ 10 mJ 1 mJ
1 kHz
10 kHz
100 kHz
1 MHz
10 MHz
100 MHz
Product range
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Ultrafast oscillator series
Air-cooled Ultrafast oscillator
Applications:
•Glass marking & engraving
•Biology : Multiphoton excitation
•Multi-photon polymerisation
•Lab-On-Chip direct writing
•Picosecond acoustics…
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Ultrafast fiber amplifier series
Ultrafast fiber amplifier series
Ultrafast amplifier series
Applications:
•Micro-machining
•Glass marking & engraving
•Chemical & material analysis
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Pointing stability
Pointing stability long-term : < 10µrad rms over 2 heures
(divergence 700µrad)
Pointing stability short-term : approx. 2 mrad rms over 5 mn
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Energy performances
CW pumping allows any rep rate
No need for compressor readjustment
Versatile source : well adapted for ablation process optimisation
Example : s-Pulse HP
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DISPLAY
Applications
MEDICAL DEVICE MFG
IMAGING
INSTRUMENTATION
EYE SURGERY
PHOTOVOLTAIC SEMICONDUCTOR
NANOTECHNOLOGY
PHARMA
MICRO-MACHINING
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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Strong R&D activity
Motivations :
• Shorter pulses for specific materials ablation
• Higher power for higher process speed
• Higher intensity for new applications
Recent results :
• Sub-100fs post-compression (60fs 300µJ @ 5kHz)
• High energy femtosecond fiber laser (60W 600µJ 300fs)
• Thin disk Yb:YAG picosecond laser source (20W 500µJ <1ps)
• Thin disk laser based on Yb:Calgo
• High average power cryocooled Yb:CaF2 laser
• Femtosecond Yb:CaF2 lasers
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Post-compression in LMA fiber / gas capillary:
1. Spectral broadening by SPM in fused silica / gas (nitrogen)
2. Monomode guiding
3. Dispersion compensation (dispersive mirrors)
Allows to achieve sub-100fs pulse duration with
• >50% overall transmission
• Compact architecture
Postcompression
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Femtosecond laser Isolator
LMA fiber
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GTI mirrors
500nJ 400fs
P = 1,2MW Low energy
High energy 600µJ 500fs 5kHz
P = 1,2GW
Gas capillary
l~15 cm 300µJ 60fs
P > 5GW !
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Thin disk Yb:Calgo
Power performances CW tunability
Experimental setup
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Coherent combining
Up to 650µJ 300fs at 100kHz
Using 2 rod-type fibers, >90% combining efficiency
Fully passive architecture : high robustness
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Cryo-cooled Yb:CaF2
Demonstration of 97W pumped with 245W
Collaboration between LCFIO, CIMAP and Amplitude Systemes
Moderate thermal lensing
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Yb:CaF2 : broadband material
Multisite
Experimental demonstrations (room temperature): • Tunability CW : 1018 – 1072 nm Lucca et al, Opt Lett, 29, 1879 (2004)
• Femtosecond oscillator : 150 fs @ 1043 nm Lucca et al, Opt Lett, 29, 2767 (2004)
• High energy amplification : 190 mJ 190 fs @1Hz
Siebold et al, Opt Lett, 33, 2770 (2008)
• High rep rate CPA laser: 0,7 mJ 180 fs @100-10kHz
Ricaud et al, Opt Lett, 35, 2415 (2010)
Interest for higher intensities and high repetition rate
Charge compensation
Clusters
Broad bands
Crystalline reorganization
Yb3+ Ca2+
Yb3+:CaF2
Ca F
Ca Ca
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Wavelength (nm)
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Experimental setup
Dichroic
mirror
Thin Film
Polarizer
Pockels cell
Laser Diode
20 W @ 981 nm
Yb:CaF2
Spectral filter
Zero-line pumping for lower heat deposition
Yb:CaF2 : 2,5 to 4,5% doping concentration, 3 to 5mm thickness
Conductively cooled on a water cooled baseplate
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Energy vs repetition rate
Typical performances : Energy vs repetition rate
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High extracted energy for moderate pump power (<10W)
Optimum repetition rate ~ 300 Hz
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Beam quality
Excellent beam quality : M²=1.10 x 1.07
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Spectral investigations
Spectral gain measurement confirms broadband spectral gain
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Tunability
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Tunable between 1030 and 1065nm, max @1050nm!
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Discussion
Optimum of energy at 1050nm
trade-off between gain and extractable energy
Specific to Quasi Three Level nature
1030nm 1050nm
Transparency level
Extractable energy
Excited
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Improved design for 5mJ regenerative amplification (17W CW pump power)
Seeded by fiber oscillators
• Compacity and integrability
• Investigate 2 different spectral ranges : 1034nm and 1053nm
Diffraction grating stretcher & compressor :
• Flexible and compact architecture
• ~300ps stretched pulses
Femtosecond regime
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Injection at 1034nm
Oscillator #1 : injection with l0 = 1034nm
Amplification @ 1038nm , with 8,8nm bandwidth
2,5mJ recompressed energy (3,6mJ before compression) @100Hz
Recompressed pulses : 250fs
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Injection at 1053nm
Oscillator #2 : injection with l0 = 1053nm
Amplification @ 1048nm , with 6nm bandwidth
3,2mJ recompressed energy (4,8mJ before compression) @100Hz
Recompressed pulses : 320fs
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Extension to 1053nm
2mJ compressed energy @1053nm @100Hz
Recompressed pulses : 600fs for 3,5nm bandwidth
Interest for damage threshold tests in the femtosecond regime
1053nm required for specific components (gratings, filters…)
100Hz allows long term testing
Use the same oscillator centered at 1053nm
Use spectral shaping before amplification
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Conclusion & Outlook
Broadly tunable ns laser from 1030-1065nm at millijoule level
good seeder for high energy lasers
10GW class femtosecond lasers at 10-300Hz
enlarging the laser portfolio
2mJ 600fs achieved @1053nm
for Nd:glass laser components qualification
Outlook :
Improve the thermal management for higher average power
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