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Compact chirped-pulse amplification systems based on highly Tm3+ doped germanate fiber

Compact chirped-pulse amplification systems based on highly Tm3+ doped germanate fiber
Compact chirped-pulse amplification systems based on highly Tm3+ doped germanate fiber

We report the fabrication of a dual cladding large mode area thulium-doped germanate fiber (TDGF). The fiber has a core diameter of 20 µm, a high Tm 3 + ion concentration of 3 cm 3 × 10 20/cm 3, and a hexagonal inner cladding to enhance pump absorption when cladding-pumped. Using a short fiber length, we demonstrate a compact 300 fs chirped-pulse amplification system operating at 1925 nm, investigating both core- and cladding-pumped implementations. By cladding pumping a 65 cm long fiber we produced an average power of 14.1 W (limited by thermally induced damage) and a peak power of 2.17 MW at a pulse repetition rate of 15.7 MHz. Core pumping a 19 cm length of TDGF produced 2.3 W of average-power and 16 MW peak-power pulses at 0.39 MHz. The performance is already comparable to the state-of-the-art success achieved with flexible silica fibers. Considering the rapid improvements in glass quality and the scope for further increasing the doping concentration, this fiber type holds great potential for pulsed fiber lasers in the 1.5-3 µm wavelength region.

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Lousteau, Joris
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White, Nicholas
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Jung, Yongmin
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Price, Jonathan HV
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Richardson, David
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Jung, Yongmin
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Price, Jonathan HV
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Ren, Zhengqi, Ben Slimen, Fedia, Lousteau, Joris, White, Nicholas, Jung, Yongmin, Price, Jonathan HV, Richardson, David and Poletti, Francesco (2021) Compact chirped-pulse amplification systems based on highly Tm3+ doped germanate fiber. Optics Letters, 46 (13), 3013-3016. (doi:10.1364/OL.422336).

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We report the fabrication of a dual cladding large mode area thulium-doped germanate fiber (TDGF). The fiber has a core diameter of 20 µm, a high Tm 3 + ion concentration of 3 cm 3 × 10 20/cm 3, and a hexagonal inner cladding to enhance pump absorption when cladding-pumped. Using a short fiber length, we demonstrate a compact 300 fs chirped-pulse amplification system operating at 1925 nm, investigating both core- and cladding-pumped implementations. By cladding pumping a 65 cm long fiber we produced an average power of 14.1 W (limited by thermally induced damage) and a peak power of 2.17 MW at a pulse repetition rate of 15.7 MHz. Core pumping a 19 cm length of TDGF produced 2.3 W of average-power and 16 MW peak-power pulses at 0.39 MHz. The performance is already comparable to the state-of-the-art success achieved with flexible silica fibers. Considering the rapid improvements in glass quality and the scope for further increasing the doping concentration, this fiber type holds great potential for pulsed fiber lasers in the 1.5-3 µm wavelength region.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 April 2021
Published date: 1 July 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: Acknowledgment. Z. Ren thanks the China Scholarship Council for financial support of his Ph.D. Funding Information: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P012248/1, EP/P027644/1, EP/P030181/1); European Research Council (682724). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Optical Society of America

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Local EPrints ID: 448654
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/448654
ISSN: 0146-9592
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ORCID for Zhengqi Ren: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1877-893X
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for Jonathan HV Price: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0256-9172
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083

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Author: Zhengqi Ren ORCID iD
Author: Fedia Ben Slimen
Author: Joris Lousteau
Author: Nicholas White
Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: Jonathan HV Price ORCID iD

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