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Brightness enhancement limits in pulsed cladding pumped fiber Raman amplifiers

Brightness enhancement limits in pulsed cladding pumped fiber Raman amplifiers
Brightness enhancement limits in pulsed cladding pumped fiber Raman amplifiers
We analyze theoretically limitations on the brightness enhancement of a multimode pump beam, to be efficiently converted into a diffraction-limited Stokes beam in a cladding-pumped fiber Raman amplifier. For a given minimum Raman pump absorption, parasitic 2nd Stokes generation limits the cladding-to-core area ratio, and thus the brightness enhancement. A W-type fiber acting as a spectral waveguide filter allows for nearly five times larger inner-cladding areas by suppressing the 2nd Stokes. We further analyze limits set by glass damage and indirectly propagation loss, as well as pulse walk-off. A well-designed fiber with 3.5 dB/km propagation loss allows for a pump-to-signal brightness improvement of up to 3600 times both in the pulsed and the cw regime.
Ji, Junhua
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Codemard, Christophe A.
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Nilsson, Johan
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Ji, Junhua
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Codemard, Christophe A.
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Nilsson, Johan
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Ji, Junhua, Codemard, Christophe A. and Nilsson, Johan (2010) Brightness enhancement limits in pulsed cladding pumped fiber Raman amplifiers. SPIE: Fiber Lasers VII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, San Francisco, United States. 23 - 28 Jan 2010. (doi:10.1117/12.844919).

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We analyze theoretically limitations on the brightness enhancement of a multimode pump beam, to be efficiently converted into a diffraction-limited Stokes beam in a cladding-pumped fiber Raman amplifier. For a given minimum Raman pump absorption, parasitic 2nd Stokes generation limits the cladding-to-core area ratio, and thus the brightness enhancement. A W-type fiber acting as a spectral waveguide filter allows for nearly five times larger inner-cladding areas by suppressing the 2nd Stokes. We further analyze limits set by glass damage and indirectly propagation loss, as well as pulse walk-off. A well-designed fiber with 3.5 dB/km propagation loss allows for a pump-to-signal brightness improvement of up to 3600 times both in the pulsed and the cw regime.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 2010
Additional Information: 7580-56
Venue - Dates: SPIE: Fiber Lasers VII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, San Francisco, United States, 2010-01-23 - 2010-01-28
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 340471
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/340471
PURE UUID: a76c538e-cd6f-42a7-9faa-0e94224d3314
ORCID for Johan Nilsson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-7959

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Author: Junhua Ji
Author: Christophe A. Codemard
Author: Johan Nilsson ORCID iD

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