Projects

This is an ambitious frontier research project aimed to build a challenging all-fiber high-power ultrafast laser system operating at 980 nm. There is no such laser available on the market. The great challenge is attributed to the competitive luminescence at 1030 nm in Yb-doped active fiber. However, the short-pulsed lasers operated at 980 nm are in high demand nowadays due to the almost unique opportunity to obtain 490 nm pulse operation by efficient frequency doubling for replacement of costly and inefficient argon lasers. The argon laser has been widely used for non-invasive medicine and power therapy. The future development of these applications is limited by the output parameters of the argon laser. Additionally, the pulsed high-power laser operated at 980 nm would be attractive as a pump source for upconversion nanoparticles integrated into the microstructured fibers. These nanoparticles absorb 980 nm light and illuminate in the visible wavelength range. The pumping of nanoparticles embedded in highly nonlinear fiber by a short intense pulse source would provide a platform for novel nonlinear effects. Within the frame of the project, the ultrashort pulse high power laser operated at 980 nm wavelength will be realized and implemented for frequency doubling and nonlinear pumping of upconversion nanoparticles.