High average power, high repetition rate, picosecond pulsed fiber master oscillator power amplifier source seeded by a gain-switched laser diode at 1060 nm

被引:102
作者
Dupriez, P. [1 ]
Piper, A.
Malinowski, A.
Sahu, J. K.
Ibsen, M.
Thomsen, B. C.
Jeong, Y.
Hickey, L. M. B.
Zervas, M. N.
Nilsson, J.
Richardson, D. J.
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Optoelect Res Ctr, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[2] Southampton Photon Inc, Southampton SO30 2QU, Hants, England
关键词
gain-switched laser diode; picosecond pulses; self-phase modulation (SPM); Yb-doped fiber amplifiers (YDFAs);
D O I
10.1109/LPT.2006.873486
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We demonstrate a pulsed ytterbium-doped fiber master-oscillator power amplifier source at 1060 nm producing over 300 W of average power in 20-ps pulses at 1-GHz repetition rate. The pulses generated by a gain-switched diode were compressed by a chirped fiber Bragg grating and amplified without any distortion with excellent spectral quality. This fiber master oscillator power amplifier system offers versatility and potential for further power scaling.
引用
收藏
页码:1013 / 1015
页数:3
相关论文
共 11 条
[1]  
Agrawal G., 2006, NONLINEAR FIBER OPTI
[2]  
DUPREIZ P, 2005, OFC AN CA MAR 6 11 2
[3]   Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1.36 kW continuous-wave output power [J].
Jeong, Y ;
Sahu, JK ;
Payne, DN ;
Nilsson, J .
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2004, 12 (25) :6088-6092
[4]  
LIEM A, 2004, CLEO IQEC SAN FRANC
[5]   Low-nonlinearity single-transverse-mode ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifier [J].
Limpert, J ;
Liem, A ;
Reich, M ;
Schreiber, T ;
Nolte, S ;
Zellmer, H ;
Tünnermann, A ;
Broeng, J ;
Petersson, A ;
Jakobsen, C .
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2004, 12 (07) :1313-1319
[6]   High-average-power picosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifier [J].
Limpert, J ;
Liem, A ;
Gabler, T ;
Zellmer, H ;
Tünnermann, A ;
Unger, S ;
Jetschke, S ;
Müller, HR .
OPTICS LETTERS, 2001, 26 (23) :1849-1851
[7]   GENERATION OF AN EXTREMELY SHORT SINGLE-MODE PULSE (APPROXIMATELY-2 PS) BY FIBER COMPRESSION OF A GAIN-SWITCHED PULSE FROM A 1.3-MU-M DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK LASER DIODE [J].
LIU, HF ;
OGAWA, Y ;
OSHIBA, S .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 1991, 59 (11) :1284-1286
[8]   PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION FROM INGAASP LASERS AT 1.25 AND 1.3 MU-M BY ELECTRICAL PULSE PUMPING [J].
LIU, PL ;
LIN, C ;
KAMINOW, IP ;
HSIEH, JJ .
IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 1981, 17 (05) :671-674
[9]   Generation of wavelength tunable gain-switched pulses from FP MQW lasers with external injection seeding [J].
Matsui, Y ;
Kutsuzawa, S ;
Arahira, S ;
Ogawa, Y .
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, 1997, 9 (08) :1087-1089
[10]  
PIPER A, 2005, CLEO IQEC BALT MD MA