High-energy, high-power ytterbium-doped Q-switched fiber laser
High-energy, high-power ytterbium-doped Q-switched fiber laser
We report on a Q-switched, cladding-pumped, ytterbium-doped large-mode-area fiber laser operating at 1090nm that is capable of generating 2.3mJ of output pulse energy at a 500Hz repetition rate and more than 5W 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, multi-millijoule pulse sources with large scope for both industrial and scientific applications.
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Alvarez-Chavez, J.A.
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Offerhaus, H.L.
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Nilsson, J.
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Turner, P.W.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Richardson, D.J.
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2000
Alvarez-Chavez, J.A.
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Offerhaus, H.L.
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Nilsson, J.
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Turner, P.W.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Alvarez-Chavez, J.A., Offerhaus, H.L., Nilsson, J., Turner, P.W., Clarkson, W.A. and Richardson, D.J.
(2000)
High-energy, high-power ytterbium-doped Q-switched fiber laser.
Optics Letters, 25 (1), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.25.000037).
Abstract
We report on a Q-switched, cladding-pumped, ytterbium-doped large-mode-area fiber laser operating at 1090nm that is capable of generating 2.3mJ of output pulse energy at a 500Hz repetition rate and more than 5W 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, multi-millijoule pulse sources with large scope for both industrial and scientific applications.
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Published date: 2000
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/13643
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