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High-pulse energy extraction with high peak power from short-pulse eye safe all-fiber laser systemFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
All-fiber contained laser systems play a key role, in the development of rugged, compact, and highly
efficient eye-safe laser sources that can generate high peak and average powers and short (<5 ns)
pulses. Application of such laser systems include spectroscopy, LIDAR, free-space
communications, materials processing and nonlinear optics.
In this paper we present further improvement on a novel high power all-fiber-based master
oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser system operating in the C-band with <5 ns pulses and a
repetition rate range of 6kHz − 200kHz. The system was optimized for performance of repetition
rates between 6kHz and 18kHz. With this system, pulse energies of 322 μJ with a peak power of
170kW and an average power of 1.9W were generated using a custom designed Er:Yb co-doped
double-clad fiber. The spectral output of the amplified pulses shows no spectral broadening due to
Four-Wave-Mixing or Stimulated Raman scattering for pulse energies with less than 260μJ.
Additionally, a beam quality M2=2.1+/-0.1 was achieved. The physical performance parameters of
the all-fiber laser system make it very suitable for a variety of applications. The performance of the
MOPA system and the experimental data are presented and discussed. To our knowledge the
combination of the presented pulses energies, peak power, average power are the highest ever
recorded in an all fiber system.
Paper Details
Date Published: 23 February 2006
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 6102, Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 610207 (23 February 2006); doi: 10.1117/12.655712
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6102:
Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications
Andrew J. W. Brown; Johan Nilsson; Donald J. Harter; Andreas Tünnermann, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 6102, Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 610207 (23 February 2006); doi: 10.1117/12.655712
Show Author Affiliations
Matthias Savage-Leuchs, Aculight Corp. (United States)
Eric Eisenberg, Aculight Corp. (United States)
Anping Liu, Aculight Corp. (United States)
Eric Eisenberg, Aculight Corp. (United States)
Anping Liu, Aculight Corp. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6102:
Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications
Andrew J. W. Brown; Johan Nilsson; Donald J. Harter; Andreas Tünnermann, Editor(s)
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