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Dataset for 'Overlapped pulsed pumping of tandem pumped fiber amplifiers to increase achievable pulse energy'
Dataset for 'Overlapped pulsed pumping of tandem pumped fiber amplifiers to increase achievable pulse energy'
Dataset for the article: A. Malinowski, J. H. V. Price and M. N. Zervas, "Overlapped Pulsed Pumping of Tandem Pumped Fiber Amplifiers to Increase Achievable Pulse Energy," in IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 1-8, April 2017. doi: 10.1109/JQE.2017.2657334 It has been reported previously that in the regime appropriate for amplifying femtosecond pulses using the chirped pulse amplification technique in Yb-fiber sources that sub-micro-second pulsed tandem pumping not only provides the thermal benefits of c.w. tandem pumping, but also enables strong suppression of ASE. In that case, the pump pulse preceded the signal pulse train. Here, we propose a tandem pumping scheme in rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers, where a train of signal pulses is amplified by a pump pulse, which is almost exactly temporally overlapped. Simulations demonstrate that this can be used to create uniform gain across the signal pulse train, even at very high total pulse energies, where there would be significant gain shaping in the previous case. In addition, the pump is absorbed in a much shorter length, which increases the threshold for nonlinear effects and gain of greater than 26 dB is shown to be readily achievable in an amplifier as short as 1.5 m. This results in increased extractable energy before reaching the threshold for limiting nonlinear effects, such as stimulated Raman scattering. These attributes should be attractive for high energy, high average power, ultrashort pulse, coherently combined fiber laser systems.
optical fibre amplifiers, optical pumping, stimulated Raman scattering, gain shaping, nonlinear effects, overlapped pulsed pumping, pulse energy, rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers, signal pulse train, tandem pumped fiber amplifiers, Fiber lasers, Laser excitation, Optical fiber amplifiers, Optical fiber devices, Power lasers, Pump lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Pulsed fiber amplifier, tandem pumping
University of Southampton
Price, Jonathan
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Malinowski, A.
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Zervas, Michael
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Price, Jonathan
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Malinowski, A.
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Zervas, Michael
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Price, Jonathan, Malinowski, A. and Zervas, Michael (2017) Dataset for 'Overlapped pulsed pumping of tandem pumped fiber amplifiers to increase achievable pulse energy'. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/399217 [Dataset]

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Dataset for the article: A. Malinowski, J. H. V. Price and M. N. Zervas, "Overlapped Pulsed Pumping of Tandem Pumped Fiber Amplifiers to Increase Achievable Pulse Energy," in IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 1-8, April 2017. doi: 10.1109/JQE.2017.2657334 It has been reported previously that in the regime appropriate for amplifying femtosecond pulses using the chirped pulse amplification technique in Yb-fiber sources that sub-micro-second pulsed tandem pumping not only provides the thermal benefits of c.w. tandem pumping, but also enables strong suppression of ASE. In that case, the pump pulse preceded the signal pulse train. Here, we propose a tandem pumping scheme in rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers, where a train of signal pulses is amplified by a pump pulse, which is almost exactly temporally overlapped. Simulations demonstrate that this can be used to create uniform gain across the signal pulse train, even at very high total pulse energies, where there would be significant gain shaping in the previous case. In addition, the pump is absorbed in a much shorter length, which increases the threshold for nonlinear effects and gain of greater than 26 dB is shown to be readily achievable in an amplifier as short as 1.5 m. This results in increased extractable energy before reaching the threshold for limiting nonlinear effects, such as stimulated Raman scattering. These attributes should be attractive for high energy, high average power, ultrashort pulse, coherently combined fiber laser systems.

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Published date: 6 March 2017
Keywords: optical fibre amplifiers, optical pumping, stimulated Raman scattering, gain shaping, nonlinear effects, overlapped pulsed pumping, pulse energy, rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers, signal pulse train, tandem pumped fiber amplifiers, Fiber lasers, Laser excitation, Optical fiber amplifiers, Optical fiber devices, Power lasers, Pump lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Pulsed fiber amplifier, tandem pumping
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 399217
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/399217
PURE UUID: ad9cba8e-a301-4497-99ba-07abcf68417e
ORCID for Jonathan Price: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0256-9172
ORCID for Michael Zervas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-4059

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Date deposited: 13 Mar 2017 15:38
Last modified: 04 Nov 2023 02:33

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Creator: Jonathan Price ORCID iD
Creator: A. Malinowski
Creator: Michael Zervas ORCID iD

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