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.
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Lin, Di
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May 2017
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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), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.42.001740).
Abstract
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
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405698
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Di Lin
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Neda Baktash
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Martin Berendt
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Martynas Beresna
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Peter Kazansky
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William Clarkson
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Shaif-ul Alam
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