High-energy, high-power ytterbium-doped Q-switched fiber laser
Optics Letters, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 37-39 (2000)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000037
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Abstract
We report on a Q -switched, cladding-pumped, ytterbium-doped large-mode-area fiber laser operating at 1090 nm that is capable of generating 2.3 mJ of output pulse energy at a 500-Hz repetition rate and more than 5 W of average output power at higher repetition rates in a high-brightness beam (M2 = 3) . Using a similar fiber with a smaller core, we generated >0.5-mJ pulses in a diffraction-limited beam. Our results represent a threefold increase in pulse energy over previously published values for Q-switched fiber lasers and firmly establish fiber lasers as compact, multiwatt, multimillijoule pulse sources with large scope for both industrial and scientific applications.
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OCIS Codes
(140.0140) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers and laser optics
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(140.3540) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Q-switched
Citation
J. A. Alvarez-Chavez, H. L. Offerhaus, J. Nilsson, P. W. Turner, W. A. Clarkson, and D. J. Richardson, "High-energy, high-power ytterbium-doped Q-switched fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 25, 37-39 (2000)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-25-1-37
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