Compact fiber-based compression of a 1 W, 76 MHz Yb laser to 15 fs for broadband ultrafast applications

Marco Polastri, Erika Benedetti, Eva Arianna Aurelia Pogna +1

We demonstrate a compact scheme for generating sub-20-fs pulses from a commercial ytterbium femtosecond laser delivering 80 fs pulses at 76 MHz repetition rate with 1 W average pow…