Compact, high-pulse-energy, high-power, picosecond master oscillator power amplifier
Compact, high-pulse-energy, high-power, picosecond master oscillator power amplifier
We report a compact, stable, gain-switched-diode-seeded master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA), employing direct amplification via conventional Yb3+-doped fibers, to generate picosecond pulses with energy of 17.7µJ and 97W average output power (excluding amplified spontaneous emission) at 5.47MHz repetition frequency in a diffraction-limited and single-polarization beam. A maximum peak power of 197kW is demonstrated. Such a high-energy, high-power, MHz, picosecond MOPA is of great interest for high-throughput material processing. With 13.8µJ pulse energy confined in the 0.87nm 3dB spectral bandwidth, this MOPA is also a promising source for nonlinear frequency conversion to generate high-energy pulses in other spectral regions. We have explored the pulse energy scaling until the stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) becomes significant (i.e. spectral peak intensity exceeds 1% of that of the signal).
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Chan, Ho-Yin
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Alam, Shaif-ul
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Xu, Lin
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Bateman, James
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Richardson, David J.
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Shepherd, David P.
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September 2014
Chan, Ho-Yin
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Alam, Shaif-ul
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Xu, Lin
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Bateman, James
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Richardson, David J.
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Shepherd, David P.
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Chan, Ho-Yin, Alam, Shaif-ul, Xu, Lin, Bateman, James, Richardson, David J. and Shepherd, David P.
(2014)
Compact, high-pulse-energy, high-power, picosecond master oscillator power amplifier.
Optics Express, 22 (18), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.22.021938).
Abstract
We report a compact, stable, gain-switched-diode-seeded master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA), employing direct amplification via conventional Yb3+-doped fibers, to generate picosecond pulses with energy of 17.7µJ and 97W average output power (excluding amplified spontaneous emission) at 5.47MHz repetition frequency in a diffraction-limited and single-polarization beam. A maximum peak power of 197kW is demonstrated. Such a high-energy, high-power, MHz, picosecond MOPA is of great interest for high-throughput material processing. With 13.8µJ pulse energy confined in the 0.87nm 3dB spectral bandwidth, this MOPA is also a promising source for nonlinear frequency conversion to generate high-energy pulses in other spectral regions. We have explored the pulse energy scaling until the stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) becomes significant (i.e. spectral peak intensity exceeds 1% of that of the signal).
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e-pub ahead of print date: 3 September 2014
Published date: September 2014
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368736
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