295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm
295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm
We report a gain-switched diode-seeded thulium doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) producing up to 295-kW picosecond pulses (35 ps) at a repetition rate of 1 MHz with a good beam quality (M2~ 1.3). A narrow-band, grating-based filter was incorporated within the amplifier chain to restrict the accumulation of nonlinear spectral broadening and counter-pumping of a short length of large-mode-area (LMA) fiber was used in the final stage amplifier to further reduce nonlinear effects. Finally, we generated watt-level> 2.5-octave supercontinuum spanning from 750 nm to 5000 nm by using the MOPA output to pump an indium fluoride fiber.
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Liang, Sijing
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19 March 2018
Liang, Sijing
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Xu, Lin
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Fu, Qiang
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Jung, Yongmin
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Shepherd, David
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Richardson, David
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Alam, Shaif-Ul
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Liang, Sijing, Xu, Lin, Fu, Qiang, Jung, Yongmin, Shepherd, David, Richardson, David and Alam, Shaif-Ul
(2018)
295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm.
Optics Express, 26 (6), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.26.006490).
Abstract
We report a gain-switched diode-seeded thulium doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) producing up to 295-kW picosecond pulses (35 ps) at a repetition rate of 1 MHz with a good beam quality (M2~ 1.3). A narrow-band, grating-based filter was incorporated within the amplifier chain to restrict the accumulation of nonlinear spectral broadening and counter-pumping of a short length of large-mode-area (LMA) fiber was used in the final stage amplifier to further reduce nonlinear effects. Finally, we generated watt-level> 2.5-octave supercontinuum spanning from 750 nm to 5000 nm by using the MOPA output to pump an indium fluoride fiber.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 March 2018
Published date: 19 March 2018
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