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Radially and azimuthally polarized nanosecond Yb-doped MOPA system incorporating temporal shaping

Radially and azimuthally polarized nanosecond Yb-doped MOPA system incorporating temporal shaping
Radially and azimuthally polarized nanosecond Yb-doped MOPA system incorporating temporal shaping
We report an Yb-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) system with the capability of selectively generating doughnut-shaped radially- and azimuthally-polarized beams with user-defined temporal pulse shapes. The desired output polarization was generated with the aid of a nanograting spatially variant half-waveplate (S-waveplate). The latter was used to convert the linearly-polarized fundamental (LP01) mode output from the pre-amplification stages to a doughnut-shaped radially-polarized beam prior to the power amplifier stage. A maximum output pulse energy of ~860 µJ was achieved for ~100 nanosecond pulses at 25 kHz with user defined pulse shape for both radial and azimuthal polarization states. The polarization purity and beam propagation factor (M2) were measured to be >12dB and 2.2 respectively.
0146-9592
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Lin, Di
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Berendt, Martin
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Lin, Di, Baktash, Neda and Berendt, Martin et al. (2017) Radially and azimuthally polarized nanosecond Yb-doped MOPA system incorporating temporal shaping. Optics Letters, 42 (9), 1740-1743. (doi:10.1364/OL.42.001740).

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We report an Yb-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) system with the capability of selectively generating doughnut-shaped radially- and azimuthally-polarized beams with user-defined temporal pulse shapes. The desired output polarization was generated with the aid of a nanograting spatially variant half-waveplate (S-waveplate). The latter was used to convert the linearly-polarized fundamental (LP01) mode output from the pre-amplification stages to a doughnut-shaped radially-polarized beam prior to the power amplifier stage. A maximum output pulse energy of ~860 µJ was achieved for ~100 nanosecond pulses at 25 kHz with user defined pulse shape for both radial and azimuthal polarization states. The polarization purity and beam propagation factor (M2) were measured to be >12dB and 2.2 respectively.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 February 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 April 2017
Published date: May 2017
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 405698
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405698
ISSN: 0146-9592
PURE UUID: c7c8838e-df3d-4850-ad78-be1fba59d6fa
ORCID for Di Lin: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5025-9051
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 09 Feb 2017 13:54
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:40

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Author: Di Lin ORCID iD
Author: Neda Baktash
Author: Martin Berendt
Author: Martynas Beresna
Author: Peter Kazansky
Author: William Clarkson
Author: Shaif-ul Alam

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