Highly efficient free running cascaded Raman fiber laser that uses broadband pumping

doi:10.1364/OPEX.13.004731

Optics Express

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Vol. 13, Iss. 12 — Jun. 13, 2005
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Highly efficient free running cascaded Raman fiber laser that uses broadband pumping

Yucheng Zhao and Stuart Jackson »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 12, pp. 4731-4736 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.004731

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A 3^rd-order cascaded Raman fiber laser has been demonstrated without using fiber Bragg gratings at all in the entire laser system. More than 2 W output power at the 3^rd Stokes emission wavelength of 1307 nm, a bandwidth of 4.2 nm and a slope efficiency of ~46% was measured when a 500 m long moderately Ge-doped silica fiber was pumped by a free running broadband Yb³⁺-doped fiber laser. This method is simple, versatile and cheap when compared with conventional methods employing narrow band pumping and fiber Bragg gratings to resonate the Stokes wavelengths. A slope efficiency of ~72% and an output power of over 4 W was also achieved at the 1^st order Stokes wavelength of 1168 nm when a 130 m long Ge-doped silica fiber was used.

OCIS Codes
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(140.3550) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Raman
(160.4330) Materials : Nonlinear optical materials
(290.5910) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Raman

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Original Manuscript: May 12, 2005
Revised Manuscript: June 5, 2005
Published: June 13, 2005

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Yucheng Zhao and Stuart Jackson, "Highly efficient free running cascaded Raman fiber laser that uses broadband pumping," Opt. Express 13, 4731-4736 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-12-4731

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J. Bromage, �??Raman amplification for fiber communications systems,�?? IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 22, 79-93 (2004). [CrossRef]
E. M. Dianov, �??Germania-based fiber Raman lasers: recent results and prospects,�?? European Conference on Optical Communication, We1.3.1, 292-295 (2004).
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[1] J. Bromage, �??Raman amplification for fiber communications systems,�?? IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 22, 79-93 (2004). [CrossRef]

[2] E. M. Dianov, �??Germania-based fiber Raman lasers: recent results and prospects,�?? European Conference on Optical Communication, We1.3.1, 292-295 (2004).

[3] S. K. Sim, H. C. Lim, L. W. Lee, L. C. Chia, R. F. Wu, I. Cristiani, M. Rini, V. Degiorgio, �??High-power cascaded Raman fiber laser using phosphosilicate fiber,�?? Electron. Lett. 40, 738-739 (2004). [CrossRef]

[4] E. M. Dianov, I. A. Bufetov, M. M. Bubnov, M. V. Grekov, S. A. Vasiliev, O. I. Medvedkov, �??Three-cascaded 1407-nm Raman laser based on phosphorous-doped silica fiber,�?? Opt. Lett. 25, 402-404 (2000). [CrossRef]

[5] Z. Xiong, N. Moore, Z. G. Li, G. C. Lim, �??10-W Raman fiber lasers at 1248 nm using phosphosilicate fibers,�?? IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 21, 2377-2381 (2003). [CrossRef]

[6] F. L. Galeener, J. C. Mikkelsen, Jr., R. H. Geils, W. J. Mosby, �??The relative Raman cross sections of vitreous SiO2, GeO2, B2O3, and P2O5,�?? Appl. Phys. Lett. 32, 34-36 (1978). [CrossRef]

[7] V. M. Mashinsky, V. B. Neustruev, V. V. Dvoyrin, S. A. Vasiliev, O. I. Medvedkov, I. A. Bufetov, A. V. Shubin, E. M. Dianov, A. N. Guryanov, V. F. Khopin, M. Yu. Salgansky, �??Germania-glass-core silicaglass-cladding modified chemical-vapor deposition optical fibers: optical losses, photorefreactivity, and Raman amplification,�?? Opt. Lett. 29, 2596-2598 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] Y. Zhao, Y. Li, and S. D. Jackson, �??Grating-free nth order cascaded Raman fiber lasers using highly Ge-doped low loss fiber,�?? Opt. Express 12, 4053-4058 (2004), <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-17-4053">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-17-4053</a> [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] R. H. Stolen, C. Lee, R. K. Jain, �??Development of the stimulated Raman spectrum in single-mode silica fibers,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1, 652-657 (1984). [CrossRef]

[10] G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic Press, San Diego, 2001).

[11] Y. Li, S. D. Jackson, S. Fleming, �??Characterization of a Nd3+-doped fiber laser incorporating an etalon formed between the fiber facet and dielectric mirror,�?? Opt. Comm. 240, 385-389 (2004). [CrossRef]

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