Half-mJ all-fiber-based single-frequency nanosecond pulsed fiber laser at 2-μm

Qiang Fang; Wei Shi; Eliot Petersen; Khanh Kieu; Arturo Chavez-Pirson; Nasser Peyghambarian

doi:10.1109/LPT.2011.2178824

Half-mJ all-fiber-based single-frequency nanosecond pulsed fiber laser at 2-μm

Qiang Fang
, Wei Shi
, Eliot Petersen
, Khanh Kieu
, Arturo Chavez-Pirson
, Nasser Peyghambarian

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Abstract

We report a high energy, high peak power, all-fiber-based single-frequency ∼15-ns pulsed laser source at ∼1918.4 nm in master oscillator-power amplifier configuration. The pulsed fiber laser seed was achieved by directly modulating a continuouswave single-frequency fiber laser using an electro-optic modulator driven by an arbitrary waveform generator to pre-shape the pulses before amplification to mitigate pulse steepening and dynamic gain saturation. One piece of large (25-μm) core, polarization-maintaining highly thulium-doped germanate glass fiber was used in the power amplifier stage to boost the energy and the peak power of the 15-ns pulses to >0.5 mJ and >33 kW without any nonlinearities.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6111443
Pages (from-to)	353-355
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2011.2178824
State	Published - 2012

Keywords

2-μm nanosecond pulses
Fiber amplifier
Single-frequency lasers

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Half-mJ all-fiber-based single-frequency nanosecond pulsed fiber laser at 2-μm

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