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100W single mode single polarization picosecond ytterbium doped fibre MOPA frequency doubled to 530nm

100W single mode single polarization picosecond ytterbium doped fibre MOPA frequency doubled to 530nm
100W single mode single polarization picosecond ytterbium doped fibre MOPA frequency doubled to 530nm
High average power laser sources operating in the picosecond (ps) regime are useful for a wide range of applications including frequency-doubling and pumping of OPOs. Gain switching (GS) of laser diodes provides a practical and low cost method to generate ps pulses at GHz repetition rates and mW average power levels. Such devices represent excellent seeds for high power fiber MOPAs allowing power scaling to the 100W regime and we recently reported average powers in excess of 300W from a 1060nm gain-switched FP laser seeded ytterbium doped fiber amplifier (YDFA) MOPA [1, 2]. However this system incorporated free space pump and signal coupling - greatly compromising the practicality of the system. Moreover, the output polarization was ill-defined limiting the utility of the system for many frequency conversion applications. Herein we present a fiberised, diode-seeded, YDFA MOPA system generating linearly polarized, diffraction-limited, 20ps pulses at repetition rates ranging from 113.5 MHz to 908 MHz and at average output powers in excess of 100W. This system represents a considerable improvement in practicality and performance relative to previous high power, fiber-based ps pulse sources [3]. The output of the MOPA was launched into an LBO crystal to generate 45W of green light.
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Alam, S.-U.
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Chen, K.K., Alam, S.-U., Hayes, J.R., Lin, Dejiao, Malinowski, A. and Richardson, D.J. (2009) 100W single mode single polarization picosecond ytterbium doped fibre MOPA frequency doubled to 530nm. Photonex '09, , Coventry, United Kingdom. 14 - 15 Oct 2009. 2 pp .

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High average power laser sources operating in the picosecond (ps) regime are useful for a wide range of applications including frequency-doubling and pumping of OPOs. Gain switching (GS) of laser diodes provides a practical and low cost method to generate ps pulses at GHz repetition rates and mW average power levels. Such devices represent excellent seeds for high power fiber MOPAs allowing power scaling to the 100W regime and we recently reported average powers in excess of 300W from a 1060nm gain-switched FP laser seeded ytterbium doped fiber amplifier (YDFA) MOPA [1, 2]. However this system incorporated free space pump and signal coupling - greatly compromising the practicality of the system. Moreover, the output polarization was ill-defined limiting the utility of the system for many frequency conversion applications. Herein we present a fiberised, diode-seeded, YDFA MOPA system generating linearly polarized, diffraction-limited, 20ps pulses at repetition rates ranging from 113.5 MHz to 908 MHz and at average output powers in excess of 100W. This system represents a considerable improvement in practicality and performance relative to previous high power, fiber-based ps pulse sources [3]. The output of the MOPA was launched into an LBO crystal to generate 45W of green light.

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Published date: 14 October 2009
Venue - Dates: Photonex '09, , Coventry, United Kingdom, 2009-10-14 - 2009-10-15
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 182599
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/182599
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ORCID for D.J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2011 09:11
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:41

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Author: K.K. Chen
Author: S.-U. Alam
Author: J.R. Hayes
Author: Dejiao Lin
Author: A. Malinowski
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD

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