Renaud, CC;
Selvas-Aguilar, RJ;
Nilsson, J;
Turner, PW;
Grudinin, AB;
(1999)
Compact high-energy Q-switched cladding-pumped fiber laser with a tuning range over 40 nm.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
, 11
(8)
976 - 978.
10.1109/68.775318.
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Abstract
We describe a compact Q-switched diode pumped double-clad ytterbium-doped fiber laser. The fiber laser was bidirectionally pumped by two laser diodes (2 W of output power each) via:two side-injecting pump-couplers. We used a large multimode core of 15 mu m diameter to increase the laser gain volume and thus to achieve higher pulse energy. Experimentally this laser produced pulses with energy up to 170 mu J with a peak power of 2 kW (at a low repetition rate of 500 Hz) and was tunable from 1060 to 1100 nm.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Compact high-energy Q-switched cladding-pumped fiber laser with a tuning range over 40 nm |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/68.775318 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/68.775318 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 1999 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
| Keywords: | diode pumping, high energy, optical fiber lasers, Q-switched lasers, tunability, ytterbium |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19397 |
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