YLPF-FlexO 50 fs, up to 1 W
Femtosecond Fiber Laser with Pulse Shaper
IPG Photonics’ YLPF-FlexO femtosecond lasers offer the user unprecedented flexibility in choosing parameters optimal for the application. The YLPF-FlexO laser provides ultrashort sub-50 fs, >40 nJ pulses at 11 MHz repetition rate. The laser system incorporates IPG’s proprietary pulse shaping technology that provides the ability to choose a desired temporal pulse shape, from the shortest near-transform-limited pulse to a variety of programmable shapes. Shaped time-domain profiles and multi-pulse waveforms within +/- 3 ps time window can be created by the user via spectral phase and amplitude shaping.
Features
| Pulse Duration from 40 fs | Repetition Rate 11 MHz |
| Output Power up to 1.1 W | Environmentally Sealed |
| Programmable Pulse Shape : Transform-limited or Shaped Pulses on Demand | |
| Rugged Industrial Design, High Reliability, Long Lifetime | |
Negative chirp up to 15,000 fs² can be added to the output pulse, equivalent to pulse broadening up to 1 ps. The linear chirp and higher-order dispersion corrections can be used for pre-compensation of pulse distortions by optical components in customer’s pulse delivery line. The pulse shaping technology can be incorporated in a closed-loop setup responding in real time, on the sub-second time scale, to input from external diagnostics.
Optional extensions such as harmonic generators, higher output pulse energies and powers as well as variable repetition rate, from a single pulse to 11 MHz and its multiples, are planned.
| YLPF-FlexO-40 |
YLPF-FlexO-100 PRELIMINARY |
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| Mode of Operation | Pulsed | |
| Central Wavelength, nm | 1030±10 | |
| Repetition Rate, MHz | 11 | |
| Temporal Pulse Shape | Programmable* | |
| Programmable Device | 2D LCOS Spatial Light Modulator, 1272×1024 | |
| Pulse Control Variables | Phase and Intensity* | |
| Pulse Shaping Mode | Diffractive | |
| Programmable Time Range**, ps | >6 | >5 |
| Minimum Pulse Duration***, fs | <60, typ.50 | <50, typ. 40 |
| Pulse Energy***, nJ | >40 | >100 |
| Average Power***, mW | >440 | >1100 |
| Polarization | Linear, 100:1 | |
| Beam Mode Quality*** |
M2<1.2 | |
| Beam Diameter, mm | 2.8 | |
| Warm-up Time, min | up to 10 | |
* Programmable spectral phase and transmission are encoded on every laser pulse, without synchronization with the laser source. This frequency-domain pulse shaping translates into corresponding changes of the time-domain profile.
** FWHM of the second-harmonic generation intensity profile as a function of shaper-assisted time delay.
*** With dispersion compensation mask applied (shortest pulse duration); no transmission mask.
| Console Dimensions (W × D × H), mm | 448 × 580 × 132 |
| Optical Head Dimensions (W × D × H), mm | 178 × 359 × 115 |
| Console Weight, kg | 26 |
| Optical Head Weight, kg | <7 |
| Total Weight, kg | <33 |
| Supply Voltage, VAC | single phase, 110-240, 50-60 Hz |
Applications
| Scientific and Advanced Applications | Analytical Chemistry |
| Bio-imaging and Multiphoton Microscopy | Terahertz Generation |
| 3D Micro Printing | Pumping OPOs |
| Seeding Amplifiers | |
The ability to select the optimal pulse shape and sequence combined with IPG’s highly reliable fiber architecture makes these femtosecond lasers the perfect master oscillator source for a wide range of scientific, biomedical, and advanced applications such as multiphoton microscopy, two-photon polymerization, laser-assisted crystallization or nucleation, photoporation and transfection in live cells, terahertz imaging, seeding amplifiers and pumping OPOs, and many others.
YLPF-FlexO Optical Head
