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Power scaling of single-frequency ytterbium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier sources up to 500W

Power scaling of single-frequency ytterbium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier sources up to 500W
Power scaling of single-frequency ytterbium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier sources up to 500W
We discuss continuous-wave single-frequency master oscillator - power amplifier (MOPA) sources based on ytterbium-doped fibers (YDFs) with particular attention to their recent dramatic advances and our up-to-date experimental results. This includes a 402 W plane polarized MOPA source and a 511 W random-polarized MOPA source. In these MOPAs, the final-stage high-power amplifier could operate with high efficiency of 70% - 80% and even more, and a high gain of over 20 dB in a near diffraction-limited beam. We could see at least 7 dB enhancement of the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold for the 402 W polarization-maintaining (PM) YDF. In fact, we did not see any sign of SBS even at the highest output power. We eventually observed SBS appearance at around 500 W for the non-PM YDF. The observed SBS strengths were far weaker than expected in theory unless we allowed for the Brillouin gain reduction from thermal Brillouin gain broadening induced by the quantum-defect heating.
brillouin scattering, optical fiber amplifiers, ytterbium, optical fiber, lasers
1077-260X
546-551
Jeong, Y.
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Nilsson, J.
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Sahu, Jayanta
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Payne, D.N.
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Jeong, Y., Nilsson, J., Sahu, Jayanta, Payne, D.N., Horley, R., Hickey, L.M.B. and Turner, P.W. (2007) Power scaling of single-frequency ytterbium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier sources up to 500W. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 13 (3), 546-551. (doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2007.896639).

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We discuss continuous-wave single-frequency master oscillator - power amplifier (MOPA) sources based on ytterbium-doped fibers (YDFs) with particular attention to their recent dramatic advances and our up-to-date experimental results. This includes a 402 W plane polarized MOPA source and a 511 W random-polarized MOPA source. In these MOPAs, the final-stage high-power amplifier could operate with high efficiency of 70% - 80% and even more, and a high gain of over 20 dB in a near diffraction-limited beam. We could see at least 7 dB enhancement of the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold for the 402 W polarization-maintaining (PM) YDF. In fact, we did not see any sign of SBS even at the highest output power. We eventually observed SBS appearance at around 500 W for the non-PM YDF. The observed SBS strengths were far weaker than expected in theory unless we allowed for the Brillouin gain reduction from thermal Brillouin gain broadening induced by the quantum-defect heating.

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Published date: May 2007
Keywords: brillouin scattering, optical fiber amplifiers, ytterbium, optical fiber, lasers

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Local EPrints ID: 47790
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/47790
ISSN: 1077-260X
PURE UUID: 100233a1-794a-4cca-b8ca-2da45221e1c3
ORCID for J. Nilsson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-7959
ORCID for Jayanta Sahu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3560-6152

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Date deposited: 10 Aug 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:20

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Author: Y. Jeong
Author: J. Nilsson ORCID iD
Author: Jayanta Sahu ORCID iD
Author: D.N. Payne
Author: R. Horley
Author: L.M.B. Hickey
Author: P.W. Turner

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