Highly efficient Tm3+ doped germanate large mode area single mode fiber laser
Highly efficient Tm3+ doped germanate large mode area single mode fiber laser
We report the fabrication of a low numerical aperture large mode area, high
concentration thulium doped germanate glass fiber using a rod-in tube technique. The fiber core is 20 μm in diameter and operates in the single-mode regime in the 2 μm region. The Tm3+ ion concentration is 3×1020/cm3 and the background fiber attenuation is 1.1 dB/m in the near infrared. We also demonstrate a high-power, high-efficiency fiber laser emitting at 1950 nm using a short (21-cm-long) length of the fiber. A slope efficiency of 55.9% with respect to absorbed pump power and a maximum output power of 1.52W was achieved. This represents both the highest slope efficiency and the highest output power reported so far for Tm3+ doped germanate single mode fiber using in-band core pumping. The large core area, short device length and high efficiency make this fiber attractive for the development of high peak power pulsed fiber amplifiers and single-frequency fiber lasers operating in the 2 µm region.
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Jung, Yongmin
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White, Nicholas
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Richardson, David
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Ben Slimen, Fedia, Chen, Shaoxiang, Lousteau, Joris, Jung, Yongmin, White, Nicholas, Alam, Shaif-Ul, Richardson, David and Poletti, Francesco
(2019)
Highly efficient Tm3+ doped germanate large mode area single mode fiber laser.
Optical Materials Express, 9 (8), .
(doi:10.1364/OME.9.004115).
Abstract
We report the fabrication of a low numerical aperture large mode area, high
concentration thulium doped germanate glass fiber using a rod-in tube technique. The fiber core is 20 μm in diameter and operates in the single-mode regime in the 2 μm region. The Tm3+ ion concentration is 3×1020/cm3 and the background fiber attenuation is 1.1 dB/m in the near infrared. We also demonstrate a high-power, high-efficiency fiber laser emitting at 1950 nm using a short (21-cm-long) length of the fiber. A slope efficiency of 55.9% with respect to absorbed pump power and a maximum output power of 1.52W was achieved. This represents both the highest slope efficiency and the highest output power reported so far for Tm3+ doped germanate single mode fiber using in-band core pumping. The large core area, short device length and high efficiency make this fiber attractive for the development of high peak power pulsed fiber amplifiers and single-frequency fiber lasers operating in the 2 µm region.
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 July 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 September 2019
Published date: 1 October 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434731
ISSN: 2159-3930
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