Q-switched Nd-doped depressed clad hollow optical fiber laser operating at 927nm and its frequency doubling to blue light
Q-switched Nd-doped depressed clad hollow optical fiber laser operating at 927nm and its frequency doubling to blue light
Cladding-pumping has enabled unsurpassed scaling of the average output power of fiber lasers. However, the relatively low pump absorption compared to core-pumped fibers creates problems for three-level fiber laser at several wavelengths. One example is Nd-doped fiber lasers at ~ 930 nm. Nonlinear degradation is another problem which can even limit the pulse energies and peak powers of pulsed fibers to lower values with cladding-pumping than with core-pumping. This can be a concern for frequency-doubling in crystals such as BiB. A large core facilitates three-level operation of cladding-pumped fibers and also mitigates nonlinear degradation such as spectral broadening. In addition, it improves the energy storage as well as the damage threshold.
Sahu, J.K.
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Kim, J.
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Jeong, Y.
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Nilsson, J.
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June 2007
Sahu, J.K.
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Kim, J.
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Jeong, Y.
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Nilsson, J.
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Sahu, J.K., Kim, J., Jeong, Y. and Nilsson, J.
(2007)
Q-switched Nd-doped depressed clad hollow optical fiber laser operating at 927nm and its frequency doubling to blue light.
CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2007: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: International Quantum Electronics Conference, Munich, Germany.
17 - 22 Jun 2007.
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Cladding-pumping has enabled unsurpassed scaling of the average output power of fiber lasers. However, the relatively low pump absorption compared to core-pumped fibers creates problems for three-level fiber laser at several wavelengths. One example is Nd-doped fiber lasers at ~ 930 nm. Nonlinear degradation is another problem which can even limit the pulse energies and peak powers of pulsed fibers to lower values with cladding-pumping than with core-pumping. This can be a concern for frequency-doubling in crystals such as BiB. A large core facilitates three-level operation of cladding-pumped fibers and also mitigates nonlinear degradation such as spectral broadening. In addition, it improves the energy storage as well as the damage threshold.
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Published date: June 2007
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CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2007: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: International Quantum Electronics Conference, Munich, Germany, 2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/50185
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J.K. Sahu
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Y. Jeong
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J. Nilsson
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