Compact tunable high power picosecond source based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of gain switch laser diode

doi:10.1364/OE.16.007888

Compact tunable high power picosecond source based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of gain switch laser diode

Hongjun Liu, Cunxiao Gao, Jintao Tao, Wei Zhao, and Yishan Wang »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 11, pp. 7888-7893 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.007888

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A compact tunable high power picosecond source based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of gain switch laser diode is demonstrated. A multi-stage single mode Yb-doped fiber preamplifier was combined with a single mode double-clad Yb-doped fiber main amplifier to construct the amplification system, which is seeded by a gain switch laser diode. By optimizing preamplifier’s parameters to compensate the seed spectrum gain, a “flat top” broadband spectrum is obtained to realize wavelength tunable output with a self-made tunable filter. The tunable pulses were further amplified to 3.5 W average power 90 ps pulses at 1 MHz repetition rate, and the center wavelength was tunable in the ranges from 1053 nm to 1073 nm with excellent beam quality.

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(060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
(060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers

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Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

History
Original Manuscript: March 31, 2008
Revised Manuscript: May 5, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: May 6, 2008
Published: May 16, 2008

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Hongjun Liu, Cunxiao Gao, Jintao Tao, Wei Zhao, and Yishan Wang, "Compact tunable high power picosecond source based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of gain switch laser diode," Opt. Express 16, 7888-7893 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-11-7888

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