Wide-span multi-wavelength high-power diode-laser pumping of fiber Raman laser
Wide-span multi-wavelength high-power diode-laser pumping of fiber Raman laser
A multimode silica-core fiber Raman laser was pumped directly by five wavelength-combined multimode diode lasers. The pump wavelengths were spread over a bandwidth of 700 cm-1, namely, at 976, 969, 950, 940, and 915 nm. This is larger than the Raman peak shift of 490 cm-1. The output power reached 31.5 W with an overall slope efficiency of 42% at the wavelength of 1018 nm when pumped with the maximum launched power of 175 W. According to simulations, the fiber was under-length and the output power could double in a longer fiber. Our results suggest that pumping with spectrally combined diode lasers is a promising approach to high-power fiber Raman lasers, even when the pump wavelengths are not optimized.
nonlinear optics, Optical fiber lasers, Raman lasers
1995-1998
Hong, Soonki
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Feng, Yutong
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Nilsson, Johan
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15 December 2019
Hong, Soonki
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Feng, Yutong
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Nilsson, Johan
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Hong, Soonki, Feng, Yutong and Nilsson, Johan
(2019)
Wide-span multi-wavelength high-power diode-laser pumping of fiber Raman laser.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 31 (24), , [8897037].
(doi:10.1109/LPT.2019.2953195).
Abstract
A multimode silica-core fiber Raman laser was pumped directly by five wavelength-combined multimode diode lasers. The pump wavelengths were spread over a bandwidth of 700 cm-1, namely, at 976, 969, 950, 940, and 915 nm. This is larger than the Raman peak shift of 490 cm-1. The output power reached 31.5 W with an overall slope efficiency of 42% at the wavelength of 1018 nm when pumped with the maximum launched power of 175 W. According to simulations, the fiber was under-length and the output power could double in a longer fiber. Our results suggest that pumping with spectrally combined diode lasers is a promising approach to high-power fiber Raman lasers, even when the pump wavelengths are not optimized.
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 November 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 November 2019
Published date: 15 December 2019
Keywords:
nonlinear optics, Optical fiber lasers, Raman lasers
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Local EPrints ID: 437192
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437192
ISSN: 1041-1135
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