Adaptive pulse shape control in a diode-seeded nanosecond fiber MOPA system
Adaptive pulse shape control in a diode-seeded nanosecond fiber MOPA system
We demonstrate active shaping of the driving electrical pulses to a laser diode in order to compensate for the pulse shaping effects of gain saturation in an Yb doped fiber amplifier cascade and to allow the generation of user defined customized output pulse shapes. In particular we demonstrate the generation of square output pulses, which have the potential to significantly increase the maximum pulse energy extractable from an amplifier before the peak power reaches the threshold for SRS, and for high efficiency frequency conversion.
fiber optics and optical communications: fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators, lasers and laser optics: diode lasers
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Vu, K.T.
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Malinowski, A.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Ghiringhelli, F.
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Hickey, L.M.B.
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Zervas, M.N.
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13 November 2006
Vu, K.T.
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Malinowski, A.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Ghiringhelli, F.
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Hickey, L.M.B.
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Zervas, M.N.
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Vu, K.T., Malinowski, A., Richardson, D.J., Ghiringhelli, F., Hickey, L.M.B. and Zervas, M.N.
(2006)
Adaptive pulse shape control in a diode-seeded nanosecond fiber MOPA system.
Optics Express, 14 (23), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.14.010996).
Abstract
We demonstrate active shaping of the driving electrical pulses to a laser diode in order to compensate for the pulse shaping effects of gain saturation in an Yb doped fiber amplifier cascade and to allow the generation of user defined customized output pulse shapes. In particular we demonstrate the generation of square output pulses, which have the potential to significantly increase the maximum pulse energy extractable from an amplifier before the peak power reaches the threshold for SRS, and for high efficiency frequency conversion.
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Published date: 13 November 2006
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Many applications of lasers require specific pulse shapes, however these are distorted by amplification. We show for the first time the generation of various chosen pulse shapes in a fibre amplifier chain by active control. Personal contributions: conducted/supervised experimental work on amplifier development and on pulse shaping, main author.
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fiber optics and optical communications: fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators, lasers and laser optics: diode lasers
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Optoelectronics Research Centre, Quantum, Light & Matter Group
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Local EPrints ID: 45744
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45744
ISSN: 1094-4087
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Date deposited: 28 Jun 2007
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K.T. Vu
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A. Malinowski
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F. Ghiringhelli
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L.M.B. Hickey
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M.N. Zervas
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